First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Stephen Bronner is Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. He serves on the editorial boards of the journals New Politics and New Political Science. He is the author or editor of fifteen books, including Moments of Decision (Routledge, 1992), which won APSA's Michael Harrington Book Award.

Introduction: From the First Edition to the Second2. Sketching the Lineage: The Critical Methond and the Idealist Tradition3. Karl Korsch: Western Marxism and the Origins of Critical Theory4. Philosophical Anticipations: A Commentary on the Reification Eassay of Georg Lukacs5. Horkheimer's Road7. Reclaiming the Fragments: On the Messianic Materialism of Walter Benjamin8. Political Aesthetics: Reflections on the Expressionless Debate9. Dialectics at a Standstill: A Methodolgoical Inquiry into the Philosophy of Theodore Adorno10. Fromm in America11. The Anthropological Break: Aesthetics and Politics in the Work of Herbert Marcuse12. Jurgen Habermas and the Language of Politics13. Critical Theory and Civil Society14. Points of Departure:Sketches for a Critical Theory with Public Aims