《批判理论》是一本有关批判理论研究的文章合集，作者都是国际学术界批判理论研究的重要专家。全书的编排次序极其严谨：将批判理论的思想根源和问题意识全面铺展开，为读者提供了批判理论研究的全景；紧接着，全书各篇文章以两条线索贯穿始终，一是批判理论的核心问题，二是批判理论关涉的几个重要领域。首先是批判理论第一波中的最核心的问题：有关启蒙辩证法的重要讨论；其次，则是将批判理论引入到精神分析、美学、经济学、政治学以及后现代理论和当代社会科学的普遍联系之中。

List of contributors

Acknowledgments

Chronology

Abbreviations

Introduction

 FRED RUSH

1 Conceptual foundations of early Critical Theory

 FRED RUSH

2  Benjamin, Adorno, and the decline of the aura

 MICHAEL ROSEN

3 The dialectic of enlightenment

 JULIAN ROBERTS

4 The marriage of Marx and Freud: Critical Theory

and psychoanalysis

 JOEL WHITEBOOK

5 Dialectics and the revolutionary impulse

 RAYMOND GEUSS

6 "The dead speaking of stones and stars":

Adorno's Aesthetic Theory

 J.M. BERNSTEIN

7 Critique, state, and economy

 MOISHE POSTONE

8 The transcendental turn: Habermas's "Kantian

 pragmatism"

  KENNETH BAYNES

9 The politics of Critical Theory

 SIMONE CHAMBERS

10 Critical Theory and the analysis of contemporary

 mass society

  HAUKE BRUNKHORST

11 Critical Theory and poststructuralism:

 Habermas and Foucault

  BEATRICE HANSSEN

12 The very idea of a critical social science:

 a pragmatist turn

  STEPHEN K. WHITE

13 A social pathology of reason: on the intellectual

 legacy of Critical Theory

  AXEL HONNETH

 Select bibliography

 Index