Critical Theory: The Basics

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Suffering
	1 Why Critical Theory?
	2 What This Book Is
	3 Subjectivity, Normativity, and Second Nature
	4 Critical Theory, Needless Suffering, and Ideology
	5 The Frankfurt School and Marx
	6 The Frankfurt School, Marx, and the United States
	7 The Frankfurt School on History
	8 Genocide, Capitalism, and the Global Order
	9 Crisis and Capitalism
1 Critique
	1 Strategies for Change
	2 The Method(s) and Discipline(s) of Critical Theory
	3 Needless Suffering, Broader Context, and Method(s)
	4 Theory and Practice
	5 Criticism: Immanent and Otherwise
	6 The Normative Grounds of Critical Theory: The Institutional Context
	7 The Normative Grounds of Critical Theory: Beyond the Institutional Context
	8 Critical Theory and Subjectivity
2 Self
	1 Subjectivity and Maturity
	2 Subjectivity, Stoicism, and Marxism
	3 Subjectivity and the World: Kant, Hegel, and Marx
	4 Subjectivity and the World: Freud, Psychoanalysis, and Material Processes
	5 Fromm, Psychoanalysis, and the Frankfurt School
	6 Psychoanalysis and History: Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse
3 Society
	1 Modern Society
	2 Commodity Exchange and History
	3 Commodities, Labor, and the Production of Value
	4 Commodity, World, Reification: Lukács, Husserl, and Lask
	5 Abstraction and Administration
	6 History and Reason
	7 State Capitalism
	8 The Culture Industry, Free Time, and Politics
	9 Politics and Psychoanalysis
	10 Maturity
4 Art
	1 Art and Society
	2 Art, Judgment, and Autonomy
	3 Art, History, and Suffering
	4 On the Importance of Form
	5 Two Examples: Schoenberg and Beckett
	6 Society and the Everyday
	7 Negativity and Society
	8 Sensibility, Subjectivity, and the Shudder
	9 The Autonomy of Art
5 Religion
	1 Art, Religion, Society, and Negative Theology
	2 Suffering and Religion
	3 Scholem, Benjamin, and the Frankfurt School
	4 Scholem on Jewish Theology
	5 Kafka as Locus
	6 Redemption, Critical Theory, and Theology
	7 Critical Theory and the Archive of Religion
	8 Antisemitism and Critical Theory
Conclusion: Philosophy, Critical Theory, and the Present
	1 The Frankfurt School: Now and Then
	2 Theory and Practice, Reprise
	3 Resistance, Maturity, and the Present
Bibliography
Index