The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory

The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory expounds the development of critical theory from its founding thinkers to its contemporary formulations in an interdisciplinary setting.

The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory expounds the development of critical theory from its founding thinkers to its contemporary formulations in an interdisciplinary setting. It maps the terrain of a critical social theory, expounding its distinctive character vis-a-vis alternative theoretical perspectives, exploring its theoretical foundations and developments, conceptualising its subject matters both past and present, and signalling its possible future in a time of great uncertainty. Taking a distinctively theoretical, interdisciplinary, international and contemporary perspective on the topic, this wide-ranging collection of chapters is arranged thematically over three volumes: Volume I: Key Texts and Contributions to a Critical Theory of Society Volume II: Themes Volume III: Contexts This Handbook is essential reading for scholars and students in the field, showcasing the scholarly rigor, intellectual acuteness and negative force of critical social theory, past and present.

VOLUME 01: Key Texts and Contributions to a Critical Theory of Society
Chapter 1: Introduction: Key Texts and Contributions to a Critical Theory of Society - Beverley Best, Werner Bonefeld and Chris O′Kane
SECTION 01: The Frankfurt  School and Critical theory
Chapter 2: Max Horkheimer and the Early Model of Critical Theory - John Abromeit
Chapter 3: Leo Löwenthal: Last Man Standing - Christoph Hesse
Chapter 4: Erich Fromm: Psychoanalysis and the Fear of Freedom - Kieran Durkin
Chapter 5: Henryk Grossmann: Theory of Accumulation and Breakdown - Paul Mattick
Chapter 6: Franz L. Neumann’s Behemoth: A Materialist Voice in the Gesamtgestalt of Fascist Studies - Karsten Olson
Chapter 7: Otto Kirchheimer: Capitalist State, Political Parties and Political Justice - Frank Schale, Lisa Klingsporn and Hubertus Buchstein
Chapter 8: The Image of Benjamin - David Kaufmann
Chapter 9: Dialectic of Enlightenment. Philosophical Fragments. - Marcel Stoetzler
Chapter 10: Herbert Marcuse: Critical Theory as Radical Socialism - Charles Reitz
Chapter 11: Theodor W. Adorno and Negative Dialectics - Nico Bobka and Dirk Braunstein
SECTION 02: Theoretical Elaborations of a Critical Social Theory
Chapter 12: Ernst Bloch: The Principle of Hope - Cat Moir
Chapter 13: Georg Lukács: An Actually Existing Antinomy - Eric-John Russell
Chapter 14: Siegfried Kracauer: Documentary Realist and Critic of Ideological “Homelessness” - Ansgar Martins
Chapter 15: Alfred Seidel and the Nihilisation of Nihilism: A contribution to the prehistory of the Frankfurt School - Christian Voller
Chapter 16: Arkadij Gurland: Political Science as Critical Theory - Hubertus Buchstein
Chapter 17: Alfred Sohn-Rethel: Real Abstraction and the Unity of Commodity-Form and Thought Form - Frank Engster and Oliver Schlaudt
Chapter 18: Alfred Schmidt: On the Critique of Social Nature - Hermann Kocyba
Chapter19: Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge: From the Underestimated Subject to the Political Constitution of Commonwealth - Richard Langston
Chapter 20: Hans-Jürgen Krahl: Social Constitution and Class Struggle - Jordi Maiso
Chapter 21: Johannes Agnoli: Subversive Thought, the Critique of the State and (Post-)Fascism - Stephan Grigat
Chapter 22: Helmut Reichelt and the New Reading of Marx - Ingo Elbe
Chapter 23: Hans-Georg Backhaus: The Critique of Premonetary Theories of Value and the Perverted Forms of Economic Reality - Riccardo Bellofiore & Tommaso Redolfi Riva
Chapter 24: Jürgen Habermas: Against Obstacles to Public Debates - Christoph Henning
SECTION 03: Critical Reception and Further Developments
Chapter 25: Gillian Rose: The Melancholy Science - Andrew Brower Latz
Chapter 26: Bolívar Echeverría: Critical Discourse and Capitalist Modernity - Andrés Saenz De Sicilia
Chapter 27: Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez: Philosophy of Praxis as Critical Theory - Stefan Gandler
Chapter 28: Roberto Schwarz: : Mimesis Beyond Realism - Nicholas Brown
Chapter 29: Aborted and/or Completed Modernization: Introducing Paulo Arantes - Pedro Rocha de Oliveira
Chapter 30: Fredric Jameson - Carolyn Lesjak
Chapter 31: Moishe Postone: Marx′s Critique of Political Economy as Immanent Social Critique - Elena Louisa Lange
Chapter 32: John Holloway: The Theory of Interstitial Revolution - Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
Chapter 33: Radical Political or Neo-Liberal Imaginary? Nancy Fraser Revisited - Claudia Leeb
Chapter 34: Axel Honneth and Critical Theory - Michael J. Thompson
VOLUME 02: Themes
Chapter 35: Introduction: Key Themes in Context of the Twentieth Century - Beverley Best, Werner Bonefeld and Chris O′Kane
SECTION 04: State, Economy, Society
Chapter 36: Society as “Totality”: On the negative-dialectical presentation of capitalist socialization - Lars Heitmann
Chapter 37: Society and Violence - Sami Khatib
Chapter 38: Society and History - José A. Zamora
Chapter 39: Totality and Technological Form - Samir Gandesha
Chapter 40: Materialism - Sebastian Truskolaski
Chapter 41: Theology and Materialism - Julia Jopp and Ansgar Martins
Chapter 42: Social Constitution and Class - Tom Houseman
Chapter 43: Critical Theory and Utopian Thought - Alexander Neupert-Doppler
Chapter 44: Praxis, Nature, Labour - Stefan Gandler
Chapter 45: Critical Theory and Epistemological and Social-Economical Critique - Frank Engster
Chapter 46: Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy: From Critical Political Economy to the Critique of Political Economy - Patrick Murray
Chapter 47: The Critique of Value and the Crisis of Capitalist Society - Josh Robinson
Chapter 48: The Frankfurt School and Fascism - Lars Fischer
Chapter 49: Society and Political Form - Alexander Neupert-Doppler
Chapter50: The Administered World - Hans-Ernst Schiller
Chapter 51: Commodity Form and the Form of Law - Andreas Harms
Chapter 52: Walter Benjamin’s Concept of Law - Amy Swiffen
Chapter 53: Security and Police - Mark Neocleous
Chapter 54: On the Authoritarian Personality - James Murphy
Chapter 55: Antisemitism and the Critique of Capitalism - Lars Fischer
Chapter 56: Race and the Politics of Recognition - Christopher Chen
Chapter 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 Jenkins
SECTION 05: Culture and Aesthetics
Chapter 58: The Culture Industry - Christian Lotz
Chapter 59: Erziehung: The Critical Theory of Education and Counter-Education - Matthew Charles
Chapter 60: Aesthetics and its Critique: The Frankfurt Aesthetic Paradigm - Johan Hartle
Chapter 61: Rather no art than socialist realism Adorno, Beckett and Brecht - Isabelle Klasen
Chapter 62: Adorno′s Brecht: The Other Origin of Negative Dialectics - Matthias Rothe
Chapter 63: Critical Theory and Literary Theory - Mathias Nilges
Chapter 64: Cinema – Spectacle – Modernity - Johannes von Moltke
Chapter 65: On Music and Dissonance: Hinge - Murray Dineen
Chapter 66: Art, Technology, and Repetition - Marina Vishmidt
Chapter 67: On Ideology, Aesthetics, and Critique - Owen Hulatt
VOLUME 03: Contexts
Chapter 68: Introduction: Contexts of Critical Theory - Beverley Best, Werner Bonefeld, and Chris O’Kane
SECTION 06: Contexts of the emergence of Critical Theory
Chapter 69: Marx, Marxism, Critical Theory - Jan Hoff
Chapter 70: The Frankfurt School and Council Communism - Felix Baum
Chapter 71: Positivism - Anders Ramsay
Chapter 72: Critical Theory and the Sociology of Knowledge: Diverging Cultures of Reflexivity - Oliver Schlaudt
Chapter 73: Critical Theory and Weberian Sociology - Klaus Lichtblau
Chapter 74: Critical Theory and the Philosophy of Language - Philip Hogh
Chapter 75: Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory - Inara Luisa Marin
Chapter 76: Humanism and Anthropology from Walter Benjamin to Ulrich Sonnemann - Dennis Johannßen
Chapter 77: Art and Revolution - Jasper Bernes
SECTION 07: Contexts of the later developments of Critical Theory
Chapter 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 Jappe
Chapter 79: Workerism and Critical Theory - Vincent Chanson and Frédéric Monferrand
Chapter 80: Open Marxism and Critical Theory: Negative Critique and Class as Critical Concept - Christos Memos
Chapter 81: Post-Marxism - Christian Lotz
Chapter 82: Critical Theory and Cultural Studies - Tom Bunyard
Chapter 83: Constellations of Critical Theory and Feminist Critique - Gudrun-Axeli Knapp
Chapter 84: Critical Theory and Recognition - Richard Gunn and Adrian Wilding
Chapter 85: ′Ideas with Broken Wings′: Critical Theory and Postcolonial Theory - Asha Varadharajan
SECTION 08: ELEMENTS OF CRITICAL THEORY IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL AND POLITICAL MOVEMENTS AND THEORIES
SECTION 86: Biopolitics as a Critical Diagnosis - Frieder Vogelmann
Chapter 87: Critical International Relations Theory - Shannon Brincat
Chapter 88: Space, Form, and Urbanity - Greig Charnock
Chapter 89: Critical theory and the critique of anti-imperialism - Marcel Stoetzler
Chapter 90: Mass Culture and the Internet - Nick Dyer-Witheford
Chapter 91: Environmentalism and the Domination of Nature - Michelle Yates
Chapter 92: Feminist Critical Theory and the Problem of (Counter)Enlightenment in the Decay of Capitalist Patriarchy - Roswitha Scholz
Chapter 93: Gender and Social Reproduction - Amy De′Ath
Chapter 94: Rackets - Gerhard Scheit
Chapter 95: Subsumption and Crisis - Joshua Clover
Chapter 96: The Figure of Crisis in Critical Theory - Amy Chun Kim
Chapter 97: Neoliberalism: Critical Theory as Natural-History - Charles Prusik
Chapter 98: On Emancipation… - Sergio Tischler Visquerra and Alfonso Galileo García Vela
Chapter 99: Crisis and Immiseration: critical theory today - Aaron Benanav and John Clegg