Jeffrey T. Nealon is Professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Alterity Politics: Ethics and Performative Subjectivity and Double Reading: Postmodernism after Deconstruction. Caren Irr is Assistant Professor of English at Brandeis University. She is the author of The Suburb of Dissent: Cultural Politics in the United States and Canada During the 1930s.

"The essays are all very intelligent, clear, and original. They present the Frankfurt School in a new light, in relation to contemporary concerns of the new century. The reinterpretations of the theoretical character of the Frankfurt School in the first part are as rewarding as the applications of it as a method of cultural analysis and critique in the second part. The introduction by Nealon and Irr and the concluding article by Heller provide a nice historical context of both the movement and the need for reinterpretation today." — David M. Kaplan, Polytechnic University"This book is important in itself and also central to current debates raging in cultural studies, if not also to the future of the Frankfurt School's legacy in critical social theory." — David Michael Levin, author of The Philosopher's Gaze: Modernity in the Shadows of Enlightenment

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Rethinking the Frankfurt SchoolJeffrey T. Nealon and Caren Irr I. THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL TODAY 1. The Theoretical Hesitation: Benjamin’s Sociological PredecessorFredric Jameson 2. The Frankfurt School and British Cultural Studies: The Missed ArticulationDouglas Kellner 3. The Limits of Culture: The Frankfurt School and/for Cultural StudiesImre Szeman 4. The Frankfurt School and the Political Economy of CommunicationsRonald V. Bettig II. ADORNO 5. Of Mice and Mimesis: Reading Spiegelman with AdornoAndreas Huyssen 6. Why Do the Sirens Sing?: Figuring the Feminine in Dialectic of EnlightenmentNancy Love 7. On Doing the Adorno Two-StepEvan Watkins 8. Maxima Immoralia?: Speed and Slowness in AdornoJeffrey T. Nealon III. BENJAMIN, HORKHEIMER, MARCUSE, HABERMAS 9. The Negative History of the Moment of Possibility: Walter Benjamin and the Coming of the MessiahRichard A. Lee Jr. 10. The Frankfurt School and the Domination of Nature: New Grounds for Radical EnvironmentalismKevin DeLuca 11. One-Dimensional Symptoms: What Marcuse Offers a Critical Theory of LawCaren Irr 12 The Offentlichkeit of Jurgen Habermas: The Frankfurt School’s Most Influential Concept?Thomas O. Beebee IV. CONCLUSION 13. The Frankfurt SchoolAgnes Heller About the Contributors Index

Jeffrey T. Nealon is Professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Alterity Politics: Ethics and Performative Subjectivity and Double Reading: Postmodernism after Deconstruction. Caren Irr is Assistant Professor of English at Brandeis University. She is the author of The Suburb of Dissent: Cultural Politics in the United States and Canada During the 1930s.

"The essays are all very intelligent, clear, and original. They present the Frankfurt School in a new light, in relation to contemporary concerns of the new century. The reinterpretations of the theoretical character of the Frankfurt School in the first part are as rewarding as the applications of it as a method of cultural analysis and critique in the second part. The introduction by Nealon and Irr and the concluding article by Heller provide a nice historical context of both the movement and the need for reinterpretation today." — David M. Kaplan, Polytechnic University"This book is important in itself and also central to current debates raging in cultural studies, if not also to the future of the Frankfurt School's legacy in critical social theory." — David Michael Levin, author of The Philosopher's Gaze: Modernity in the Shadows of Enlightenment

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Rethinking the Frankfurt SchoolJeffrey T. Nealon and Caren Irr I. THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL TODAY 1. The Theoretical Hesitation: Benjamin’s Sociological PredecessorFredric Jameson 2. The Frankfurt School and British Cultural Studies: The Missed ArticulationDouglas Kellner 3. The Limits of Culture: The Frankfurt School and/for Cultural StudiesImre Szeman 4. The Frankfurt School and the Political Economy of CommunicationsRonald V. Bettig II. ADORNO 5. Of Mice and Mimesis: Reading Spiegelman with AdornoAndreas Huyssen 6. Why Do the Sirens Sing?: Figuring the Feminine in Dialectic of EnlightenmentNancy Love 7. On Doing the Adorno Two-StepEvan Watkins 8. Maxima Immoralia?: Speed and Slowness in AdornoJeffrey T. Nealon III. BENJAMIN, HORKHEIMER, MARCUSE, HABERMAS 9. The Negative History of the Moment of Possibility: Walter Benjamin and the Coming of the MessiahRichard A. Lee Jr. 10. The Frankfurt School and the Domination of Nature: New Grounds for Radical EnvironmentalismKevin DeLuca 11. One-Dimensional Symptoms: What Marcuse Offers a Critical Theory of LawCaren Irr 12 The Offentlichkeit of Jurgen Habermas: The Frankfurt School’s Most Influential Concept?Thomas O. Beebee IV. CONCLUSION 13. The Frankfurt SchoolAgnes Heller About the Contributors Index