Editing Negative capability (section)

==Criticism==
In 1989 [[Stanley Fish]] expressed strong reservations about the attempt to apply the concept of negative capability to social contexts. He criticized Unger's early work as being unable to chart a route for the idea to pass into reality, which leaves history closed and the individual holding onto the concept while kicking against air. Fish finds the capability Unger invokes in his early works unimaginable and unmanufacturable that can only be expressed outright in blatant speech, or obliquely in concept.<ref>S. Fish, "Unger and Milton", in ''Doing What Comes Naturally'' (1989): 430</ref> More generally, Fish finds the idea of radical culture as an oppositional ideal in which context is continuously refined or rejected impracticable at best, and impossible at worst.<ref>H. Aram Veeser ed., ''The Stanley Fish Reader'' (Oxford 1999) p.216-7</ref> Unger addressed these criticisms by developing a full theory of historical process in which negative capability is employed.<ref>{{cite book | last = Unger | first = Roberto | title = False Necessity: Anti-Necessitarian Social Theory in the Service of Radical Democracy, Revised Edition | publisher = Verso | location = London | year = 2004 | isbn = 978-1-85984-331-4 }}</ref>

In ''The Life in the Sonnets'', David Fuller made use of negative capability in 2012, addressing the qualities and potential of writing literary criticism. A critic's experience and feelings altogether form a strong framework to expand one's ability in critical thinking, while negative capability replaces the notion of correctness in analyzing literary texts.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Dwelling in/on Reading|year=2012 |doi=10.1093/camqtly/bfs010 |url=https://academic.oup.com/camqtly/article-abstract/41/2/279/289129|last1=Keilen |first1=S. |journal=The Cambridge Quarterly |volume=41 |issue=2 |pages=279–284 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>