Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-222).
Contents:
The irreducibility of progress : Kant's account of the relationship between morality and history -- A social pathology of reason : on the intellectual legacy of critical theory -- Reconstructive social criticism with a genealogical proviso : on the idea of "critique" in the Frankfurt School -- A physiognomy of the capitalist form of life : a sketch of Adorno's social theory -- Performing justice : Adorno's introduction to Negative dialectics -- Saving the sacred with a philosophy of history : on Benjamin's "Critique of violence" -- Appropriating freedom : Freud's conception of individual self-relation -- "Anxiety and politics" : the strengths and weaknesses of Franz Neumann's diagnosis of a social pathology -- Democracy and inner freedom : Alexander Mitscherlich's contribution to critical social theory -- Dissonances of communicative reason : Albrecht Wellmer and critical theory -- Appendix : idiosyncrasy as a tool of knowledge : social criticism in the age of the normalized intellectual.
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