CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Critical Theory in Critical Times

I. THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY

1. AN EXPLORATION OF THE MEANING OF TRANSNATIONALIZATION OF DEMOCRACY, USING THE EXAMPLE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

JÜRGEN HABERMAS

II. HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOVEREIGNTY

2. DEMOCRATIC SOVEREIGNTY AND TRANSNATIONAL LAW: ON LEGAL UTOPIANISM AND DEMOCRATIC SKEPTICISM

SEYLA BENHABIB

3. HUMAN RIGHTS, SOVEREIGNTY, AND THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT

CRISTINA LAFONT

4. A CRITICAL THEORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS—SOME GROUNDWORK

RAINER FORST

III. POLITICAL RIGHTS IN NEOLIBERAL TIMES

5. NEOLIBERALISM AND THE ECONOMIZATION OF RIGHTS

WENDY BROWN

6. LAW AND DOMINATION

CHRISTOPH MENKE

IV. CRITICIZING CAPITALISM

7. BEHIND MARX’S HIDDEN ABODE: FOR AN EXPANDED CONCEPTION OF CAPITALISM

NANCY FRASER

8. A WIDE CONCEPT OF ECONOMY: ECONOMY AS A SOCIAL PRACTICE AND THE CRITIQUE OF CAPITALISM

RAHEL JAEGGI

V. THE END OF PROGRESS IN POSTCOLONIAL TIMES

9. ADORNO, FOUCAULT, AND THE END OF PROGRESS: CRITICAL THEORY IN POSTCOLONIAL TIMES

AMY ALLEN

10. “POST-FOUCAULT”: THE CRITICAL TIME OF THE PRESENT

PENELOPE DEUTSCHER

11. CRITICIZING CRITICAL THEORY

CHARLES W. MILLS

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