Table of Contents
Preface
Section I: Introduction
Chapter 1. From the Eclipse of Reason to Communicative Rationality and Beyond Peter Uwe Hohendahl
Section II: Adorno and Benjamin: Reemerging Questions of Epistemology, History, and Aesthetics
Chapter 2. Is Experience Still in Crisis? Reflections on a Frankfurt School Lament Martin Jay
Chapter 3. Mega Melancholia: Adorno’s Minima Moralia Eva Geulen
Chapter 4. Stumbling Into Modernity: Body and Soma in Adorno Andrew Hewitt
Chapter 5. Aesthetic Politics Today: Walter Benjamin and Post-Fordist Culture Lutz Koepnick
Section III: In the Wake of Jürgen Habermas: Communicative Reason, Morality, and History
Chapter 6. Critique and Self-Reflection: The Problematization of Morality Christoph Menke
Chapter 7. Dialogical Rationality and the Critique of Absolute Autonomy Brian Jacobs
Chapter 8. Civil Society in the Information Age: Beyond the Public Sphere Jodi Dean
Chapter 9. Between Rights and Hospitality: Cosmopolitan Democracy, Nation, and Cultural Identity Max Pensky
Chapter 10. A Question of Grounding: Reconstruction and Strict Reflexion in Habermas and Apel Peter Dews
Section IV: A Contemporary Challenge to Critical Theory: Systems Theory
Chapter 11. Critical Theory and Systems Theory Wolfram Malte Fues
Chapter 12. Observations on Observations: Some Remarks on Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory Harro Müller
Section V: Epilogue
Chapter 13. Normativity and its Limits: Toward a Residual Ethics in Critical Theory Jaimey Fisher
Bibliography Index