Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Introduction: What is Critical Theory?
Chapter 1: The Frankfurt School
Chapter 2: A Matter of Method
Chapter 3: Alienation and Reification
Chapter 4: Enlightened Illusions
Chapter 5: Utopia and its Discontents
Chapter 6: The Happy Consciousness
Chapter 7: The Great Refusal
Chapter 8: From Resignation to Renewal
Further Reading
Index

About the Author

Stephen Eric Bronner is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Director for Global Relations at the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University.

Reviews

"This is the only book of its kind: it's a readable, yet expertly crafted, tour through the Frankfurt School, along with a forceful account of why the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory still matters a decade into the new millennium. I can't recommend it highly enough." --Jeffrey T. Nealon, professor of English, Penn State University; co-editor of Rethinking the Frankfurt School
"The book's forthright critique and call to transformation are a breath of
fresh air."-- Joan Braune, Philosophy in Review