Descent of the Dialectic Phronetic Criticism in an Age of Nihilism

Preface Introduction Part 1: Nihilism and the Descent of Dialectics 1. On Dialectical Reason and its Descent 2. Reification as an Ontological Concept 3. Value Irrationality and the Failures of Deliberative Democracy 4. On the Concept of Social Pathology Part 2: Dialectics, Ontology and Phronetic Criticism 5. Negation without Ontology: Rethinking Adorno's Late Philosophy 6. Ontologizing the Dialectic: Lukács on the Foundations for a Marxian Ethics 7. Toward an Ontology of Social Relations 8. Critical Social Ontology and the Practice of Phronetic Criticism