List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Abbreviations
Introduction
FRED RUSH
1 Conceptual foundations of early Critical Theory
FRED RUSH
2 Benjamin, Adorno, and the decline of the aura
MICHAEL ROSEN
3 The dialectic of enlightenment
JULIAN ROBERTS
4 The marriage of Marx and Freud: Critical Theory
and psychoanalysis
JOEL WHITEBOOK
5 Dialectics and the revolutionary impulse
RAYMOND GEUSS
6 "The dead speaking of stones and stars":
Adornos Aesthetic Theory
J.M. BERNSTEIN
7 Critique, state, and economy
MOISHE POSTONE
8 The transcendental turn: Habermass "Kantian
pragmatism"
KENNETH BAYNES
9 The politics of Critical Theory
SIMONE CHAMBERS
10 Critical Theory and the analysis of contemporary
mass society
HAUKE BRUNKHORST
11 Critical Theory and poststructuralism:
Habermas and Foucault
BEATRICE HANSSEN
12 The very idea of a critical social science:
a pragmatist turn
STEPHEN K. WHITE
13 A social pathology of reason: on the intellectual
legacy of Critical Theory
AXEL HONNETH
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Index