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

Introduction: From the First Edition to the Second 2. Sketching the Lineage: The Critical Methond and the Idealist Tradition 3. Karl Korsch: Western Marxism and the Origins of Critical Theory 4. Philosophical Anticipations: A Commentary on the Reification Eassay of Georg Lukacs 5. Horkheimer's Road 7. Reclaiming the Fragments: On the Messianic Materialism of Walter Benjamin 8. Political Aesthetics: Reflections on the Expressionless Debate 9. Dialectics at a Standstill: A Methodolgoical Inquiry into the Philosophy of Theodore Adorno 10. Fromm in America 11. The Anthropological Break: Aesthetics and Politics in the Work of Herbert Marcuse 12. Jurgen Habermas and the Language of Politics 13. Critical Theory and Civil Society 14. Points of Departure:Sketches for a Critical Theory with Public Aims

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.