Judith Marcus is visiting assistant professor of sociology, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, the New School for Social Research. She is the author of Thomas Mann und Georg Lukács., Zoltán Tar was visiting Fulbright Scholar to Budapest, Hungary, and has taught sociology at the City College of CUNY, New School for Social Research, and University of Illinois. He is author of The Frankfurt School: The Critical Theories of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One History and History of Ideas
1. Contribution to a Critique of Critical Theory
2. The Frankfurt School in New York
3. The Idea of Critical Theory
4. The Dialectical Imagination by Martin Jay
Part Two Philosophy
5. The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory
6. Critique of Reason from Max Weber to Jlirgen Habermas
7. Irrationalism of the Left
8. Reason or Revolution?
9. The Frankfurt School: An Autobiographical Note
Part Three Aesthetics
10. On Walter Benjamin
11. Lukács and Horkheimer: The Place of Aesthetics in Horkheimer's Thought
12. Negative Philosophy of Music: Positive Results
13. Autonomy of Art: Looking Back at Adorno's Ästhetische Theorie
Part Four Sociology and Social Psychology
14. Critical Theory and Dialectics
15. The Struggle of Reason against Total Bureaucratization
16. The Positivist Dispute in Retrospect
17. The Uses of Psychoanalysis in Critical Theory and Structuralism
18. Partisan Truth: Knowledge and Social Classes in Critical Theory
Part Five Political Science and Political Economy
19. The Political Contradictions in Adorno's Critical Theory
20. The Anti-Semitism Studies of the Frankfurt School: The Failure of Critical Theory
21. Political Economy and Critical Theory
Part Six Marxism
22. The Frankfurt School
23. From Hegel to Marcuse
24. Understanding Marcuse
25. The Limits of Praxis in Critical Theory
About the Contributors
Index
