Before revision: Kompridis contrasts this with much in what is today called "critical theory ," which he argues has ignored the utopian concerns that previously animated that tradition, in favour of a Habermasian self-understanding that restricts itself to clarifying ] the procedures by which we can reach agreement in modern democratic societies .
After revision: Kompridis contrasts his own vision of critical theory with aJürgen Habermas|Habermasianemphasis on ] the procedures by which we can reach agreement in modern democratic societies .