Introduction

what is critical theory?

Michael Thompson

1-14

Critical theory and resistance

on antiphilosophy and the philosophy of praxis

17-42

Marx's influence on the early Frankfurt school

Chad Kautzer

43-65

Lukács' theory of reification and the tradition of critical theory

Konstantinos Kavoulakos

67-85

Totality, reason, dialectics

the importance of Hegel for critical theory from Lukács to Honneth

Omar Dahbour

87-108

Why students of the Frankfurt school will have to read Lukács

Andrew Feenberg

109-133

Critical theory and the historical transformations of capitalist modernity

Moishe Postone

137-163

Critical theory as radical comparative–historical research

Harry F. Dahms

165-184

The Frankfurt school and the critique of instrumental reason

Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker

185-206

Materialism in critical theory

Marx and the early Horkheimer

David A. Borman

207-229

Critique as the epistemic framework of the critical social sciences

Michael Thompson

231-252

Theories of culture in the Frankfurt school of critical theory

Christoph Henning

255-278

Adorno's aesthetic theory

James Freeman

279-289

Art and the concept of autonomy in Adorno's Kant critique

Max Paddison

291-308

Judging by refraining from judgment

the artwork and its einordnung

Gerhard Richter

309-327

Aesthetics as the precondition for revolution

Dirk Michel-Schertges

329-348

What does it mean to be critical?

on literary and social critique in Walter Benjamin

Nathan Ross

349-365

Theory and class consciousness

David N. Smith

369-423

The Frankfurt school, authority, and the psychoanalysis of utopia

C. Alford

425-441

The social psychology of critical theory

Lauren Langman

443-462

The social psychology of authority

Mark P. Worrell

463-480

The Fromm–Marcuse debate and the future of critical theory

Neil McLaughlin

481-501

The metaethics of critical theories

Titus Stahl

505-522

Collective agency and intentionality

a critical theory perspective

Barbara Fultner

523-545

Recognition, social systems and critical theory

Spyros Gangas

547-565

Recognition, identity and subjectivity

Heikki Ikäheimo

567-585

The sociological roots and deficits of Axel Honneth's theory of recognition

Mariana Teixeira

587-609

Experience and temporality

toward a new paradigm of critical theory

Espen Hammer

613-629

Critical theory of human rights

Lars Rensmann

631-653

Immanent critique and the exhaustion thesis

neoliberalism and history's vicissitudes

Robert J. Antonio

655-676

Critical theory and global development

David Ingram

677-696

The new sensibility, intersectionality, and democratic attunement

the future of critical theory and humanity

Arnold Farr

697-715