Abstract: Abstract In the 20th anniversary issue in 1988, Telos editors continually returned to one theme: Telos' marginality. The journal was never part of any movement, political or otherwise, and proud of it. “What united us,” writes Frank Adler, was “the experience of pursuing [our] project alone.” Paul Breines says Telos sought marginality and achieved it twice over: a “dual marginality,” he calls it, from the Left and from academia. While this kept Telos from the center of policy debates, it also kept it provocative, iconoclastic, brazen. As Breines noted a few years earlier, “Telos was the New Left's schlemiel, its Good Soldier Schweik, its Yossarian.” By stubbornly exploring areas others dared not tread, Telos was able to bring the esoteric abstractions of Critical Theory to a New Left shouting about “relevance.”
Publication Year: 1994
Publication Date: 1994-10-01
Language: en
Type: article
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