The Persistence of Critical Theory: Culture & Civilization

Introduction
Gabriel R. Ricci

1. Critical Theory in Germany: On the Way into the Twenty-First Century 
Samuel Salzborn

2. The Frankfurt School, Critical Theory, and Sociology at the Institute for Social Research (1950 to 1960)
Alex Demirović

3. The Dialectification of Science and Philosophy 
Charles Reitz

4. From Complex Classlessness to Complex Denaturalization: On Marx, Luhmann, and Critical Theory
Darrow Schecter

5. Transnational Governmentality and Civil Society: Ambivalences of Power in a Globalized World 
Ina Kerner

6. Neo-Noir Dialectics and the Subject of Crisis 
Fabio Vighi

7. The Concept of “Crisis” in the Thought of Cornelius Castoriadis 
Christos Memos

8. Language, Action, and Power: A Critique of Pragmatist Critical Theory 
Michael J. Thompson

9. Habermas’s Critique of the Production Paradigm 
Ingo Elbe

10. Sympathy Regulated by Communicative Reason: Horkheimer, Habermas, and Animals 
Ryan Gunderson

11. The Promise and Problem of Recognition Theory
Paddy McQueen

12. Female Resistance or the Politics of Death? Rethinking Antigone 
Claudia Leeb

13. We Cannot Draw Closed the Net in Which We Are Caught—Walter Benjamin’s Fragment Capitalism as Religion
Judith Mohrmann