New Critical Theory

William S. Wilkerson is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Jeffrey R. Paris is visiting professor at the University of San Francisco.

This collection brings together some of the most exciting voices writing in critical theory today. The essays included in the volume show us how critical theory can be expanded to include the burning issues of multiculturalism; racial, ethnic, and language politics; and the pressing demands of feminism.

• Chapter 1 Foreword: Back to the Future: Marcuse and the New Critical TheoryChapter 2 Introduction: Why a New Critical Theory?Part 3 Visions and MethodsChapter 4 Obstinate Critique and the Possibility of the FutureChapter 5 Redemption in the Impasse: An Other CommunismChapter 6 Toward a New Critical TheoryChapter 7 Inhabiting Hope: Contributions to a New Materialist PhenomenologyPart 8 Intersections beyond PostmodernismChapter 9 Marcuse and the Quest for Radical SubjectivityChapter 10 Challenging the Colonial Contract: The Zapatistas Insurgent ImaginationPart 11 Critique of TechnologyChapter 12 Marcuse and the Aestheticization of TechnologyChapter 13 Women Carrying Water: At the Crossroads of Technology and Critical TheoryChapter 14 Chronotopology: Critique of Spatiotemporal RegimesPart 15 Race, Sexuality, and the Normative Foundations of CriticismChapter 16 Can Queer Theory Be Critical Theory?Chapter 17 The Mother Wit of Justice: Eros and Hubris in the African-American ContextChapter 18 Imagining the HorizonPart 19 Index