The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory

Editors: Best, Beverley, Bonefeld, Werner and O'Kane, Chris
Publication Year: 2018
Publisher: Sage UK

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ISBN: 978-1-47-395334-5
Category: Social Sciences - Sociology
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The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory expounds the development of critical theory from its founding thinkers to its contemporary formulations in an interdisciplinary setting.

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Table of Contents

  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Notes on the Editors and Contributors
  • Acknowledgement
  • VOLUME 1: KEY TEXTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO A CRITICAL THEORY OF SOCIETY
  • 1 Introduction: Key Texts and Contributions to a Critical Theory of Society - Beverley Best, Werner Bonefeld and Chris O'Kane
  • PART I THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL AND CRITICAL THEORY
  • 2 Max Horkheimer and the Early Model of Critical Theory - John Abromeit
  • 3 Leo Löwenthal: Last Man Standing - Christoph Hesse
  • 4 Erich Fromm: Psychoanalysis and the Fear of Freedom - Kieran Durkin
  • 5 Henryk Grossmann: Theory of Accumulation and Breakdown - Paul Mattick
  • 6 Franz L. Neumann's Behemoth: A Materialist Voice in the Gesamtgestalt of Fascist Studies - Karsten Olson
  • 7 Otto Kirchheimer: Capitalist State, Political Parties and Political Justice - Frank Schale, Lisa Klingsporn and Hubertus Buchstein
  • 8 The Image of Benjamin - David Kaufmann
  • 9 Dialectic of Enlightenment. Philosophical Fragments - Marcel Stoetzler
  • 10 Herbert Marcuse: Critical Theory as Radical Socialism - Charles Reitz
  • 11 Theodor W. Adorno and Negative Dialectics - Nico Bobka and Dirk Braunstein
  • PART II THEORETICAL ELABORATIONS OF A CRITICAL SOCIAL THEORY
  • 12 Ernst Bloch: The Principle of Hope - Cat Moir
  • 13 Georg Lukács: An Actually Existing Antinomy - Eric-John Russell
  • 14 Siegfried Kracauer: Documentary Realist and Critic of Ideological ‘Homelessness’ - Ansgar Martins
  • 15 Alfred Seidel and the Nihilisation of Nihilism: A Contribution to the Prehistory of the Frankfurt School - Christian Voller
  • 16 Arkadij Gurland: Political Science as Critical Theory - Hubertus Buchstein
  • 17 Alfred Sohn-Rethel: Real Abstraction and the Unity of Commodity-Form and Thought Form - Frank Engster and Oliver Schlaudt
  • 18 Alfred Schmidt: On the Critique of Social Nature - Hermann Kocyba
  • 19 Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge: From the Underestimated Subject to the Political Constitution of Commonwealth - Richard Langston
  • 20 Hans-Jürgen Krahl: Social Constitution and Class Struggle - Jordi Maiso
  • 21 Johannes Agnoli: Subversive Thought, the Critique of the State and (Post-)Fascism - Stephan Grigat
  • 22 Helmut Reichelt and the New Reading of Marx - Ingo Elbe
  • 23 Hans-Georg Backhaus: The Critique of Premonetary Theories of Value and the Perverted Forms of Economic Reality - Riccardo Bellofiore and Tommaso Redolfi Riva
  • 24 Jürgen Habermas: Against Obstacles to Public Debates - Christoph Henning
  • PART III CRITICAL RECEPTION AND FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS
  • 25 Gillian Rose: The Melancholy Science - Andrew Brower Latz
  • 26 Bolívar Echeverría: Critical Discourse and Capitalist Modernity - Andrés Saenz de Sicilia
  • 27 Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez: Philosophy of Praxis as Critical Theory - Stefan Gandler
  • 28 Roberto Schwarz: Mimesis Beyond Realism - Nicholas Brown
  • 29 Aborted and/or Completed Modernization: Introducing Paulo Arantes - Pedro Rocha de Oliveira
  • 30 Fredric Jameson - Carolyn Lesjak
  • 31 Moishe Postone: Marx's Critique of Political Economy as Immanent Social Critique - Elena Louisa Lange
  • 32 John Holloway: The Theory of Interstitial Revolution - Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
  • 33 Radical Political or Neo-Liberal Imaginary? Nancy Fraser Revisited - Claudia Leeb
  • 34 Axel Honneth and Critical Theory - Michael J. Thompson
  • VOLUME 2: THEMES
  • 35 Introduction: Key Themes in the Context of the Twentieth Century - Beverley Best, Werner Bonefeld, and Chris O'Kane
  • PART IV STATE, ECONOMY, SOCIETY
  • 36 Society as ‘Totality’: On the Negative-Dialectical Presentation of Capitalist Socialization - Lars Heitmann
  • 37 Society and Violence - Sami Khatib
  • 38 Society and History - José A. Zamora
  • 39 Totality and Technological Form - Samir Gandesha
  • 40 Materialism - Sebastian Truskolaski
  • 41 Theology and Materialism - Julia Jopp and Ansgar Martins
  • 42 Social Constitution and Class - Tom Houseman
  • 43 Critical Theory and Utopian Thought - Alexander Neupert-Doppler
  • 44 Praxis, Nature, Labour - Stefan Gandler
  • 45 Critical Theory and Epistemological and Social-Economical Critique - Frank Engster
  • 46 Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy: From Critical Political Economy to the Critique of Political Economy - Patrick Murray
  • 47 The Critique of Value and the Crisis of Capitalist Society - Josh Robinson
  • 48 The Frankfurt School and Fascism - Lars Fischer
  • 49 Society and Political Form - Alexander Neupert-Doppler
  • 50 The Administered World - Hans-Ernst Schiller
  • 51 Commodity Form and the Form of Law - Andreas Harms
  • 52 Walter Benjamin's Concept of Law - Amy Swiffen
  • 53 Security and Police - Mark Neocleous
  • 54 On the Authoritarian Personality - James Murphy
  • 55 Antisemitism and the Critique of Capitalism - Lars Fischer
  • 56 Race and the Politics of Recognition - Christopher Chen
  • 57 Society, Regression, Psychoanalysis, or ‘Capitalism Is Responsible for Your Problems with Your Girlfriend’: On the Use of Psychoanalysis in the Work of the Frankfurt School - Benjamin Y. Fong and Scott Jenkins
  • PART V CULTURE AND AESTHETICS
  • 58 The Culture Industry - Christian Lotz
  • 59 Erziehung: The Critical Theory of Education and Counter-Education - Matthew Charles
  • 60 Aesthetics and Its Critique: The Frankfurt Aesthetic Paradigm - Johan Hartle
  • 61 Rather No Art than Socialist Realism: Adorno, Beckett and Brecht - Isabelle Klasen
  • 62 Adorno's Brecht: The Other Origin of Negative Dialectics - Matthias Rothe
  • 63 Critical Theory and Literary Theory - Mathias Nilges
  • 64 Cinema - Spectacle - Modernity - Johannes von Moltke
  • 65 On Music and Dissonance: Hinge - Murray Dineen
  • 66 Art, Technology, and Repetition - Marina Vishmidt
  • 67 On Ideology, Aesthetics, and Critique - Owen Hulatt
  • VOLUME 3: CONTEXTS
  • 68 Introduction: Contexts of Critical Theory - Beverley Best, Werner Bonefeld, and Chris O'Kane
  • PART VI CONTEXTS OF THE EMERGENCE OF CRITICAL THEORY
  • 69 Marx, Marxism, Critical Theory - Jan Hoff
  • 70 The Frankfurt School and Council Communism - Felix Baum
  • 71 Positivism - Anders Ramsay
  • 72 Critical Theory and the Sociology of Knowledge: Diverging Cultures of Reflexivity - Oliver Schlaudt
  • 73 Critical Theory and Weberian Sociology - Klaus Lichtblau
  • 74 Critical Theory and the Philosophy of Language - Philip Hogh
  • 75 Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory - Inara Luisa Marin
  • 76 Humanism and Anthropology from Walter Benjamin to Ulrich Sonnemann - Dennis Johannßen
  • 77 Art and Revolution - Jasper Bernes
  • PART VII CONTEXTS OF THE LATER DEVELOPMENTS OF CRITICAL THEORY
  • 78 The Spectacle and the Culture Industry, the Transcendence of Art and the Autonomy of Art: Some Parallels between Theodor Adorno's and Guy Debord's Critical Concepts - Anselm Jappe
  • 79 Workerism and Critical Theory - Vincent Chanson and Frédéric Monferrand
  • 80 Open Marxism and Critical Theory: Negative Critique and Class as Critical Concept - Christos Memos
  • 81 Post-Marxism - Christian Lotz
  • 82 Critical Theory and Cultural Studies - Tom Bunyard
  • 83 Constellations of Critical Theory and Feminist Critique - Gudrun-Axeli Knapp
  • 84 Critical Theory and Recognition - Richard Gunn and Adrian Wilding
  • 85 ‘Ideas with Broken Wings’: Critical Theory and Postcolonial Theory - Asha Varadharajan
  • PART VIII ELEMENTS OF CRITICAL THEORY IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL AND POLITICAL MOVEMENTS AND THEORIES
  • 86 Biopolitics as a Critical Diagnosis - Frieder Vogelmann
  • 87 Critical International Relations Theory - Shannon Brincat
  • 88 Space, Form, and Urbanity - Greig Charnock
  • 89 Critical Theory and the Critique of Anti-Imperialism - Marcel Stoetzler
  • 90 Mass Culture and the Internet - Nick Dyer-Witheford
  • 91 Environmentalism and the Domination of Nature - Michelle Yates
  • 92 Feminist Critical Theory and the Problem of (Counter)Enlightenment in the Decay of Capitalist Patriarchy - Roswitha Scholz
  • 93 Gender and Social Reproduction - Amy De'Ath
  • 94 Rackets - Gerhard Scheit
  • 95 Subsumption and Crisis - Joshua Clover
  • 96 The Figure of Crisis in Critical Theory - Amy Chun Kim
  • 97 Neoliberalism: Critical Theory as Natural-History - Charles Prusik
  • 98 On Emancipation - Sergio Tischler Visquerra and Alfonso Galileo García Vela
  • 99 Crisis and Immiseration: Critical Theory Today - Aaron Benanav and John Clegg