The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Theory

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List of contributors --
1. Introduction: what is critical theory? / Michael J. Thompson --
Part I. The Hegelian-Marxist roots of critical theory: 2. Critical theory and resistance: on antiphilosophy and the philosophy of praxis / Stephen Eric Bronner
 3. Marx\'s influence on the early Frankfurt School / Chad Kautzer
 4. Lukács\' theory of reification and the tradition of critical theory / Konstantinos Kavoulakos
 5. Totality, reason, dialectics: the importance of Hegel for critical theory from Lukács to Honneth / Omar Dahbour
 6. Why students of the Frankfurt School will have to read Lukács / Andrew Feenberg --
Part II. Critical epistemology and the aims of social research: 7. Critical theory and the historical transformations of capitalist modernity / Moishe Postone
 8. Critical theory as radical comparative-historical research / Harry F. Dahms
 9. The Frankfurt School and the critique of instrumental reason / Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker
 10. Materialism in critical theory: Marx and the early Horkheimer / David A. Borman
 11. Critique as the epistemic framework of the critical social sciences / Michael J. Thompson. Part III. The sociology of culture and critical aesthetics: 12. Theories of culture in the Frankfurt School of critical theory / Christoph Henning
 13. Adorno\'s aesthetic theory / James Freeman
 14. Art and the concept of autonomy in Adorno\'s Kant critique / Max Paddison
 15. Judging by refraining from judgment: the artwork and its Einordnung / Gerhard Richter
 16. Aesthetics as the precondition for revolution / Dirk Michel-Schertges
 17. What does it mean to be critical? On literary and social critique in Walter Benjamin / Nathan Ross --
Part IV. Critical social psychology and the study of authoritarianism: 18. Theory and class consciousness / David Norman Smith
 19. The Frankfurt School, authority, and the psychoanalysis of Utopia / C. Fred Alford
 20. The social psychology of critical theory / Lauren Langman
 21. The social psychology of authority / Mark P. Worrell
 22. The Fromm-Marcuse debate and the future of critical theory / Neil McLaughlin --
Part V. The communicative turn, discourse ethics, and recognition: 23. The metaethics of critical theories / Titus Stahl
 24. Collective agency and intentionality: a critical theory perspective / Barbara Fultner
 25. Recognition, social systems and critical theory / Spyros Gangas
 26. Recognition, identity and subjectivity / Heikki Ikäheimo
 27. The sociological roots and deficits of Axel Honneth\'s Theory of recognition / Mariana Teixeira. Part VI. Future directions in critical theory: 28. Experience and temporality: toward a new paradigm of critical theory / Espen Hammer
 29. Critical theory of human rights / Lars Rensmann
 30. Immanent critique and the exhaustion thesis: neoliberalism and history\'s vicissitudes / Robert J. Antonio
 31. Critical theory and global development / David Ingram
 32. The new sensibility, intersectionality, and democratic attunement: the future of critical theory and humanity / Arnold Farr.