Darrow Schecter is Reader in the School of Humanities, University of Sussex and previously taught at the University of Oxford. He teaches various courses on political and critical theory and has written numerous books, including Sovereign States or Political Communities? and The History of the Left from Marx to the Present.

"This splendid book contains exceptionally insightful discussions of critical theory, Heidegger, Arendt and other theorists and opens up an exceptionally important argument about the relations between legality and legitimacy."-William Outhwaite, Chair of Sociology, Newcastle University"

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction; Chapter 1: From Reason to Rationalisation: The Emergence of the Weberian Paradigm; Chapter 2: The Revolutionary Critique of Instrumental Reason: Lukacs and Benjamin; Chapter 3: Horkheimer, Adorno and Critical Theory; Chapter 4: The Ontological and Republican Critiques: Heidegger and Arendt; Chapter 5: Reason, Thinking and the Critique of Everyday Life; Chapter 6: From Rationalisation to Communicative Action: The Emergence of the Habermasian Paradigm; Conclusion: On Post-Liberal Autonomy and Post-Capitalist; Legitimacy; Bibliography; Index.

Darrow Schecter is Reader in the School of Humanities, University of Sussex and previously taught at the University of Oxford. He teaches various courses on political and critical theory and has written numerous books, including Sovereign States or Political Communities? and The History of the Left from Marx to the Present.

"This splendid book contains exceptionally insightful discussions of critical theory, Heidegger, Arendt and other theorists and opens up an exceptionally important argument about the relations between legality and legitimacy."-William Outhwaite, Chair of Sociology, Newcastle University"

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction; Chapter 1: From Reason to Rationalisation: The Emergence of the Weberian Paradigm; Chapter 2: The Revolutionary Critique of Instrumental Reason: Lukacs and Benjamin; Chapter 3: Horkheimer, Adorno and Critical Theory; Chapter 4: The Ontological and Republican Critiques: Heidegger and Arendt; Chapter 5: Reason, Thinking and the Critique of Everyday Life; Chapter 6: From Rationalisation to Communicative Action: The Emergence of the Habermasian Paradigm; Conclusion: On Post-Liberal Autonomy and Post-Capitalist; Legitimacy; Bibliography; Index.

Darrow Schecter is Reader in the School of Humanities, University of Sussex and previously taught at the University of Oxford. He teaches various courses on political and critical theory and has written numerous books, including Sovereign States or Political Communities? and The History of the Left from Marx to the Present.

"This splendid book contains exceptionally insightful discussions of critical theory, Heidegger, Arendt and other theorists and opens up an exceptionally important argument about the relations between legality and legitimacy."-William Outhwaite, Chair of Sociology, Newcastle University"

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction; Chapter 1: From Reason to Rationalisation: The Emergence of the Weberian Paradigm; Chapter 2: The Revolutionary Critique of Instrumental Reason: Lukacs and Benjamin; Chapter 3: Horkheimer, Adorno and Critical Theory; Chapter 4: The Ontological and Republican Critiques: Heidegger and Arendt; Chapter 5: Reason, Thinking and the Critique of Everyday Life; Chapter 6: From Rationalisation to Communicative Action: The Emergence of the Habermasian Paradigm; Conclusion: On Post-Liberal Autonomy and Post-Capitalist; Legitimacy; Bibliography; Index.