Contents

Introduction: Against the Current

PART I: 1900–1920

1Condition: Critical

2Fathers and Sons, and Other Conflicts

PART II: THE 1920S

3The World Turned Upside Down

4A Bit of the Other

PART III: THE 1930S

5Show Us the Way to the Next Whiskey Bar

6The Power of Negative Thinking

7In the Crocodile’s Jaws

8Modernism and All That Jazz

9A New World

PART IV: THE 1940S

10The Road to Port Bou

11In League with the Devil

12The Fight Against Fascism

PART V: THE 1950S

13The Ghost Sonata

14The Liberation of Eros

PART VI: THE 1960S

15Up Against the Wall, Motherfuckers

16Philosophising with Molotov Cocktails

PART VII: BACK FROM THE ABYSS – HABERMAS AND CRITICAL THEORY AFTER THE 1960S

17The Frankfurt Spider

18Consuming Passions: Critical Theory in the New Millennium

Further Reading

Notes

Index