This handbook is the only major survey of critical theory from philosophical, political, sociological, psychological and historical vantage points. It emphasizes not only on the historical and philosophical roots of critical theory, but also its current themes and trends as well as future applications and directions. It addresses specific areas of interest that have forged the critical theory tradition, such as critical social psychology, aesthetics and the critique of culture, communicative action, and the critique of instrumental reason. It is intended for those interested in exploring the influential paradigm of critical theory from multiple, interdisciplinary perspectives and understanding its contribution to the humanities and the social sciences.
I. The Hegelian-Marxist Roots of Critical Theory
1. Stephen Eric Bronner: Critical Foundations: History, Reflection, Praxis
2. Chad Kautzer: Marxs Influence on the Early Frankfurt School
3. Konstantinos Kavoulakos: Luk?css Theory of Reification and the Tradition of Critical Theory
4. Omar Dahbour: Totality, Reason, Dialectics: The Importance of Hegel for Critical Theory from Luk?cs to Honneth
5. Andrew Feenberg: Why Students of the Frankfurt School Need to Read Lukacs
II. Critique, Epistemology and the Aims of Social Research
6. Moishe Postone: Critical Theory and the Historical Transformations of Capitalist Modernity
7. Harry Dahms: Critical Theory as Radical Comparative-Historical Research
8. Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker: The Frankfurt School and the Critique of Instrumental Reason
9. David Borman: Materialism in Critical Theory: Marx and the Early Horkheimer
10. Michael J. Thompson: Critique As the Epistemic Framework of the Critical Social
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