The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory

The Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory is and will be essential for anyone who wants to approach, study in depth and orientate oneself in that which falls under the name of critical theory. The authors of this volumes, extending the basis of the foundation of critical theory to include thinkers such as Bloch, Benjamin, Lukács, Kracauer, Sohn-Rethel, and others, give us more of an image of a large bush than that of a tree whose roots are planted in the city of Frankfurt alone. In this way, critical theory is de-provincialized, meeting Bolívar Echeverría and Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez; and it branches out further in its encounter with contemporary social and political movements and theories, including feminism and gendered dynamics of social reproduction. Through the voices of these great volumes, critical theory acquires new vitality from its dialogue with other traditions and critical discourses of capitalist modernity, showing that it is capable of transforming itself based on the variety of contemporary contexts.

• VOLUME 01: Key Texts and Contributions to a Critical Theory of SocietyChapter 1: Introduction: Key Texts and Contributions to a Critical Theory of Society - Beverley Best, Werner Bonefeld and Chris O′KaneSECTION 01: The Frankfurt  School and Critical theoryChapter 2: Max Horkheimer and the Early Model of Critical Theory - John AbromeitChapter 3: Leo Löwenthal: Last Man Standing - Christoph HesseChapter 4: Erich Fromm: Psychoanalysis and the Fear of Freedom - Kieran DurkinChapter 5: Henryk Grossmann: Theory of Accumulation and Breakdown - Paul MattickChapter 6: Franz L. Neumann’s Behemoth: A Materialist Voice in the Gesamtgestalt of Fascist Studies - Karsten OlsonChapter 7: Otto Kirchheimer: Capitalist State, Political Parties and Political Justice - Frank Schale, Lisa Klingsporn and Hubertus BuchsteinChapter 8: The Image of Benjamin - David KaufmannChapter 9: Dialectic of Enlightenment. Philosophical Fragments. - Marcel StoetzlerChapter 10: Herbert Marcuse: Critical Theory as Radical Socialism - Charles ReitzChapter 11: Theodor W. Adorno and Negative Dialectics - Nico Bobka and Dirk BraunsteinSECTION 02: Theoretical Elaborations of a Critical Social TheoryChapter 12: Ernst Bloch: The Principle of Hope - Cat MoirChapter 13: Georg Lukács: An Actually Existing Antinomy - Eric-John RussellChapter 14: Siegfried Kracauer: Documentary Realist and Critic of Ideological “Homelessness” - Ansgar MartinsChapter 15: Alfred Seidel and the Nihilisation of Nihilism: A contribution to the prehistory of the Frankfurt School - Christian VollerChapter 16: Arkadij Gurland: Political Science as Critical Theory - Hubertus BuchsteinChapter 17: Alfred Sohn-Rethel: Real Abstraction and the Unity of Commodity-Form and Thought Form - Frank Engster and Oliver SchlaudtChapter 18: Alfred Schmidt: On the Critique of Social Nature - Hermann KocybaChapter19: Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge: From the Underestimated Subject to the Political Constitution of Commonwealth - Richard LangstonChapter 20: Hans-Jürgen Krahl: Social Constitution and Class Struggle - Jordi MaisoChapter 21: Johannes Agnoli: Subversive Thought, the Critique of the State and (Post-)Fascism - Stephan GrigatChapter 22: Helmut Reichelt and the New Reading of Marx - Ingo ElbeChapter 23: Hans-Georg Backhaus: The Critique of Premonetary Theories of Value and the Perverted Forms of Economic Reality - Riccardo Bellofiore & Tommaso Redolfi RivaChapter 24: Jürgen Habermas: Against Obstacles to Public Debates - Christoph HenningSECTION 03: Critical Reception and Further DevelopmentsChapter 25: Gillian Rose: The Melancholy Science - Andrew Brower LatzChapter 26: Bolívar Echeverría: Critical Discourse and Capitalist Modernity - Andrés Saenz De SiciliaChapter 27: Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez: Philosophy of Praxis as Critical Theory - Stefan GandlerChapter 28: Roberto Schwarz: : Mimesis Beyond Realism - Nicholas BrownChapter 29: Aborted and/or Completed Modernization: Introducing Paulo Arantes - Pedro Rocha de OliveiraChapter 30: Fredric Jameson - Carolyn LesjakChapter 31: Moishe Postone: Marx′s Critique of Political Economy as Immanent Social Critique - Elena Louisa LangeChapter 32: John Holloway: The Theory of Interstitial Revolution - Ana Cecilia DinersteinChapter 33: Radical Political or Neo-Liberal Imaginary? Nancy Fraser Revisited - Claudia LeebChapter 34: Axel Honneth and Critical Theory - Michael J. ThompsonVOLUME 02: ThemesChapter 35: Introduction: Key Themes in Context of the Twentieth Century - Beverley Best, Werner Bonefeld and Chris O′KaneSECTION 04: State, Economy, SocietyChapter 36: Society as “Totality”: On the negative-dialectical presentation of capitalist socialization - Lars HeitmannChapter 37: Society and Violence - Sami KhatibChapter 38: Society and History - José A. ZamoraChapter 39: Totality and Technological Form - Samir GandeshaChapter 40: Materialism - Sebastian TruskolaskiChapter 41: Theology and Materialism - Julia Jopp and Ansgar MartinsChapter 42: Social Constitution and Class - Tom HousemanChapter 43: Critical Theory and Utopian Thought - Alexander Neupert-DopplerChapter 44: Praxis, Nature, Labour - Stefan GandlerChapter 45: Critical Theory and Epistemological and Social-Economical Critique - Frank EngsterChapter 46: Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy: From Critical Political Economy to the Critique of Political Economy - Patrick MurrayChapter 47: The Critique of Value and the Crisis of Capitalist Society - Josh RobinsonChapter 48: The Frankfurt School and Fascism - Lars FischerChapter 49: Society and Political Form - Alexander Neupert-DopplerChapter50: The Administered World - Hans-Ernst SchillerChapter 51: Commodity Form and the Form of Law - Andreas HarmsChapter 52: Walter Benjamin’s Concept of Law - Amy SwiffenChapter 53: Security and Police - Mark NeocleousChapter 54: On the Authoritarian Personality - James MurphyChapter 55: Antisemitism and the Critique of Capitalism - Lars FischerChapter 56: Race and the Politics of Recognition - Christopher ChenChapter 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 JenkinsSECTION 05: Culture and AestheticsChapter 58: The Culture Industry - Christian LotzChapter 59: Erziehung: The Critical Theory of Education and Counter-Education - Matthew CharlesChapter 60: Aesthetics and its Critique: The Frankfurt Aesthetic Paradigm - Johan HartleChapter 61: Rather no art than socialist realism Adorno, Beckett and Brecht - Isabelle KlasenChapter 62: Adorno′s Brecht: The Other Origin of Negative Dialectics - Matthias RotheChapter 63: Critical Theory and Literary Theory - Mathias NilgesChapter 64: Cinema – Spectacle – Modernity - Johannes von MoltkeChapter 65: On Music and Dissonance: Hinge - Murray DineenChapter 66: Art, Technology, and Repetition - Marina VishmidtChapter 67: On Ideology, Aesthetics, and Critique - Owen HulattVOLUME 03: ContextsChapter 68: Introduction: Contexts of Critical Theory - Beverley Best, Werner Bonefeld, and Chris O’KaneSECTION 06: Contexts of the emergence of Critical TheoryChapter 69: Marx, Marxism, Critical Theory - Jan HoffChapter 70: The Frankfurt School and Council Communism - Felix BaumChapter 71: Positivism - Anders RamsayChapter 72: Critical Theory and the Sociology of Knowledge: Diverging Cultures of Reflexivity - Oliver SchlaudtChapter 73: Critical Theory and Weberian Sociology - Klaus LichtblauChapter 74: Critical Theory and the Philosophy of Language - Philip HoghChapter 75: Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory - Inara Luisa MarinChapter 76: Humanism and Anthropology from Walter Benjamin to Ulrich Sonnemann - Dennis JohannßenChapter 77: Art and Revolution - Jasper BernesSECTION 07: Contexts of the later developments of Critical TheoryChapter 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 JappeChapter 79: Workerism and Critical Theory - Vincent Chanson and Frédéric MonferrandChapter 80: Open Marxism and Critical Theory: Negative Critique and Class as Critical Concept - Christos MemosChapter 81: Post-Marxism - Christian LotzChapter 82: Critical Theory and Cultural Studies - Tom BunyardChapter 83: Constellations of Critical Theory and Feminist Critique - Gudrun-Axeli KnappChapter 84: Critical Theory and Recognition - Richard Gunn and Adrian WildingChapter 85: ′Ideas with Broken Wings′: Critical Theory and Postcolonial Theory - Asha VaradharajanSECTION 08: ELEMENTS OF CRITICAL THEORY IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL AND POLITICAL MOVEMENTS AND THEORIESSECTION 86: Biopolitics as a Critical Diagnosis - Frieder VogelmannChapter 87: Critical International Relations Theory - Shannon BrincatChapter 88: Space, Form, and Urbanity - Greig CharnockChapter 89: Critical theory and the critique of anti-imperialism - Marcel StoetzlerChapter 90: Mass Culture and the Internet - Nick Dyer-WithefordChapter 91: Environmentalism and the Domination of Nature - Michelle YatesChapter 92: Feminist Critical Theory and the Problem of (Counter)Enlightenment in the Decay of Capitalist Patriarchy - Roswitha ScholzChapter 93: Gender and Social Reproduction - Amy De′AthChapter 94: Rackets - Gerhard ScheitChapter 95: Subsumption and Crisis - Joshua CloverChapter 96: The Figure of Crisis in Critical Theory - Amy Chun KimChapter 97: Neoliberalism: Critical Theory as Natural-History - Charles PrusikChapter 98: On Emancipation… - Sergio Tischler Visquerra and Alfonso Galileo García VelaChapter 99: Crisis and Immiseration: critical theory today - Aaron Benanav and John Clegg