Abstract
New critical theory describes the type of criticism employed by contemporary thinkers working in and with the legacy of the influential “Frankfurt School” of philosophers and critics. Critical theory, in this sense, is perhaps unusual in having an institutional base namely, the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt. The institutional continuity of critical theory, broken only by World War II and the exile from Europe of most of the members of the “Frankfurt School,” does not necessarily indicate a straight path from the institute's establishment to its contemporary form. Writing in 2004, the current head of the institute, Axel Honneth, remarked that a gulf has opened up between contemporary thinkers in the tradition of critical theory and their predecessors, especially Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse:
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