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.

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