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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on the Editors and Contributors
Acknowledgement
1 Introduction: Key Texts and Contributions to a Critical Theory of Society
Part I The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory
2 Max Horkheimer and the Early Model of Critical Theory
3 Leo Löwenthal: Last Man Standing
4 Erich Fromm: Psychoanalysis and the Fear of Freedom
5 Henryk Grossmann: Theory of Accumulation and Breakdown
6 Franz L. Neumann’s Behemoth: A Materialist Voice in the Gesamtgestalt of Fascist Studies
7 Otto Kirchheimer: Capitalist State, Political Parties and Political Justice
8 The Image of Benjamin1
9 Dialectic of Enlightenment. Philosophical Fragments
10 Herbert Marcuse: Critical Theory as Radical Socialism
11 Theodor W. Adorno and Negative Dialectics
Part II Theoretical Elaborations of a Critical Social Theory
12 Ernst Bloch: The Principle of Hope
13 Georg Lukács: An Actually Existing Antinomy
14 Siegfried Kracauer: Documentary Realist and Critic of Ideological ‘Homelessness’
15 Alfred Seidel and the Nihilisation of Nihilism: A Contribution to the Prehistory of the Frankfurt School
16 Arkadij Gurland: Political Science as Critical Theory
17 Alfred Sohn-Rethel: Real Abstraction and the Unity of Commodity-Form and Thought Form
18 Alfred Schmidt: On the Critique of Social Nature
19 Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge: From the Underestimated Subject to the Political Constitution of Commonwealth
20 Hans-Jürgen Krahl: Social Constitution and Class Struggle
21 Johannes Agnoli: Subversive Thought, the Critique of the State and (Post-)Fascism
22 Helmut Reichelt and the New Reading of Marx1
23 Hans-Georg Backhaus: The Critique of Premonetary Theories of Value and the Perverted Forms of Economic Reality
24 Jürgen Habermas: Against Obstacles to Public Debates
Part III Critical Reception and Further Developments
25 Gillian Rose: The Melancholy Science
26 Bolívar Echeverría: Critical Discourse and Capitalist Modernity
27 Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez: Philosophy of Praxis as Critical Theory
28 Roberto Schwarz: Mimesis Beyond Realism
29 Aborted and/or Completed Modernization: Introducing Paulo Arantes
30 Fredric Jameson
31 Moishe Postone: Marx’s Critique of Political Economy as Immanent Social Critique
32 John Holloway: The Theory of Interstitial Revolution
33 Radical Political or Neo-Liberal Imaginary? Nancy Fraser Revisited
34 Axel Honneth and Critical Theory
35 Introduction: Key Themes in the Context of the Twentieth Century
Part IV State, Economy, Society
36 Society as ‘Totality’: On the Negative-Dialectical Presentation of Capitalist Socialization
37 Society and Violence
38 Society and History
39 Totality and Technological Form
40 Materialism
41 Theology and Materialism
42 Social Constitution and Class
43 Critical Theory and Utopian Thought
44 Praxis, Nature, Labour
45 Critical Theory and Epistemological and Social-Economical Critique
46 Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy: From Critical Political Economy to the Critique of Political Economy
47 The Critique of Value and the Crisis of Capitalist Society
48 The Frankfurt School and Fascism
49 Society and Political Form
50 The Administered World1
51 Commodity Form and the Form of Law
52 Walter Benjamin’s Concept of Law
53 Security and Police
54 On the Authoritarian Personality
55 Antisemitism and the Critique of Capitalism
56 Race and the Politics of Recognition
57 Society, Regression, Psychoanalysis, or ‘Capitalism Is Responsible for Your Problems with Your Girlfriend’: On the Use of Psychoanalysis in the Work of the Frankfurt School
Part V Culture and Aesthetics
58 The Culture Industry
59 Erziehung: The Critical Theory of Education and Counter-Education
60 Aesthetics and Its Critique: The Frankfurt Aesthetic Paradigm
61 Rather No Art than Socialist Realism: Adorno, Beckett, and Brecht
62 Adorno’s Brecht: The Other Origin of Negative Dialectics
63 Critical Theory and Literary Theory
64 Cinema – Spectacle – Modernity
65 On Music and Dissonance: Hinge
66 Art, Technology, and Repetition
67 On Ideology, Aesthetics, and Critique
68 Introduction: Contexts of Critical Theory
Part VI Contexts of the Emergence of Critical Theory
69 Marx, Marxism, Critical Theory
70 The Frankfurt School and Council Communism
71 Positivism
72 Critical Theory and the Sociology of Knowledge: Diverging Cultures of Reflexivity
73 Critical Theory and Weberian Sociology
74 Critical Theory and the Philosophy of Language1
75 Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory
76 Humanism and Anthropology from Walter Benjamin to Ulrich Sonnemann
77 Art and Revolution
Part VII Contexts of the Later Developments of Critical Theory
78 The Spectacle and the Culture Industry, the Transcendence of Art and the Autonomy of Art: Some Parallels between Theodor Adorno’s and Guy Debord’s Critical Concepts
79 Workerism and Critical Theory
80 Open Marxism and Critical Theory: Negative Critique and Class as Critical Concept
81 Post-Marxism
82 Critical Theory and Cultural Studies
83 Constellations of Critical Theory and Feminist Critique
84 Critical Theory and Recognition
85 ‘Ideas with Broken Wings’:1 Critical Theory and Postcolonial Theory
Part VIII Elements of Critical Theory in Contemporary Social and Political Movements and Theories
86 Biopolitics as a Critical Diagnosis1
87 Critical International Relations Theory
88 Space, Form, and Urbanity
89 Critical Theory and the Critique of Anti-Imperialism
90 Mass Culture and the Internet
91 Environmentalism and the Domination of Nature
92 Feminist Critical Theory and the Problem of (Counter)Enlightenment in the Decay of Capitalist Patriarchy
93 Gender and Social Reproduction1
94 Rackets
95 Subsumption and Crisis
96 The Figure of Crisis in Critical Theory
97 Neoliberalism: Critical Theory as Natural-History1
98 On Emancipation…
99 Crisis and Immiseration: Critical Theory Today
Index
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