" Frankfurt School Critical Theory is generally understood as a body of social thought both emerging from and responding to Marxism, and the work of critical theorists is recognized as having made significant contributions to the study of [culture] … Emphasizing issues of consciousness and culture, the critical theorists have … stressed the role of human agency in affecting revolutionary social change. … Theory with practical intent seeks not only to understand the world but also to transform it. "

― , Critical Theory and Political Possibilities: Conceptions of Emancipatory Politics in the Works of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Habermas