Gillian Rose (1947-1995) was one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers and social theorists. She was a lecturer in sociology at the University of Sussex, and then chair of Social and Political Thought at the University of Warwick. She is the author of works such as Hegel Contra Sociology (1981), The Broken Middle: Out of Our Ancient Society (1992), and her memoir Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life (1995).

This is the best starting place for a new generation of Rose-readers, a reminder of where it all began, when modernists could still be Marxists and theologians belonged to a previous age. A treat for the Roserati.

• Editors' Introduction: Gillian Rose and the Difficulty of Critical Theory | Robert Lucas Scott and James Gordon FinlaysonMarxist Modernism | Gillian Rose1. Introduction: Marxist Modernism2. The Politics of Realism: Georg Lukács3. The Greatness and Decline of Expressionism: Ernst Bloch4. The Battle Over Walter Benjamin5. The Dialectic of Enlightenment: Horkheimer and Adorno6. Liquidating Aesthetics: Brecht7. The Search for Style: Adorno; Kafka or Mann?Afterword | Martin JayIndex