List of contributors Acknowledgments Chronology Abbreviations Introduction FRED RUSH 1 Conceptual foundations of early Critical Theory FRED RUSH 2 Benjamin, Adorno, and the decline of the aura MICHAEL ROSEN 3 The dialectic of enlightenment JULIAN ROBERTS 4 The marriage of Marx and Freud: Critical Theory and psychoanalysis JOEL WHITEBOOK 5 Dialectics and the revolutionary impulse RAYMOND GEUSS 6 "The dead speaking of stones and stars": Adornos Aesthetic Theory J.M. BERNSTEIN 7 Critique, state, and economy MOISHE POSTONE 8 The transcendental turn: Habermass "Kantian pragmatism" KENNETH BAYNES 9 The politics of Critical Theory SIMONE CHAMBERS 10 Critical Theory and the analysis of contemporary mass society HAUKE BRUNKHORST 11 Critical Theory and poststructuralism: Habermas and Foucault BEATRICE HANSSEN 12 The very idea of a critical social science: a pragmatist turn STEPHEN K. WHITE 13 A social pathology of reason: on the intellectual legacy of Critical Theory AXEL HONNETH Select bibliography Index