This volume is a collection of essays by Richard Wolin, a leading political theorist and intellectual historian. They focus on European Political Thought, particularly with figures associated with the Frankfurt School.

Richard Wolin is Distinguished Professor of History, Comparative Literature, and Political Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Among his books are Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, KarlLowith, Hans Jonas, and Martin Heidegger (2001) and TheSeduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance withFascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism (2004).

Introduction: The Frankfurt School Revisited Part 1: The Frankfurt School Revisited 1. Between Proust and the Zohar: Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project 2. The Adorno Centennial: The Apotheosis of Negative Dialectics 3. What is Heideggerian Marxism? On the Unknown Herbert Marcuse 4. Critical Reflections on Marcuse's Theory of Revolution 5. The Lion in Winter: Leo Lowenthal and the Integrity of the Intellectual 6. Levinas and Heidegger: The Anxiety of Influence 7. Karl Jaspers: The Paradoxes of Mandarin Humanism Part 2: Exiting Revolution 8. What We Can Learn From the Revolutions of 1989 9 . From the "Death of Man" to Human Rights: The Paradigm Change in French Intellectual Life, 1968-86 10. The Republican Revival: Reflections on French Singularity Postscript: Hexagon Fever 11. What is Global Democracy? 12. Religion and Public Reason: A Contemporary Debate 13. The Disoriented Left: A Critique of Left Schmittianism 14. Kant at Ground Zero: Philosophers Respond to September 11