Critique in a Neoliberal Age brings a critique of ideology to main debates within economic sociology, populism studies, the neoliberal university, therapy culture, contemporary intimacies and feminism.

Introduction 1. Ideology Critique in a Neoliberal Age 2. Sociology and Critique 3. The Dialectics of Critique and Progress 4. The Embedded Market and Ideology Critique 5. Common Cause? The Political Rationalities of Neo-liberalism and Populism 6. De-politicizing Needs: Therapy Culture and the 'Happiness Turn' 7. Rationality Potentials of Intimacy: In Search of a Critical Pulse 8. The Critic's Role: Debating Nancy Fraser's Feminism 9. Learning from the Budapest School Women: The Politics of Need Interpretation Conclusion

Pauline Johnson is Associate Professor of Sociology at Macquarie University Australia. She is the author of Marxist Aesthetics and Habermas: Rescuing the Public Sphere and Feminism as Radical Humanism, and co-editor of Culture and Enlightenment: Essays for György Markus and Modern Privacies: Shifting Boundaries, New Forms.