Critical Theory: New Discussions

Russell A. Berman
Introduction

James Gordon Finlayson
Morality and Critical Theory: On the Normative Problem of Frankfurt School Social Criticism

Joshua Rayman
Metaphysical Elements in the Aesthetics of Benjamin, Adorno, and Horkheimer

Nicholas Joll
How Should Philosophy Be Clear? Loaded Clarity, Default Clarity, and Adorno

Sigrid Weigel
Poetics as a Presupposition of Philosophy: Hannah Arendt's Denktagebuch

Jean-Michel Landry
Confession, Obedience, and Subjectivity: Michel Foucault's Unpublished Lectures On the Government of the Living

Thomas Lynch
Confessions of the Self: Foucault and Augustine

Aaron Riches
Political Theology and Pauline Law: Notes Toward a Sapiential Legality


Reviews

Ulrich Plass
Outbreak Attempts: New Scholarship on Adorno
(Roger Foster, Adorno: The Recovery of Experience; Iain Macdonald and Krzysztof Ziarek, eds., Adorno and Heidegger: Philosophical Questions; Alastair Morgan, Adorno's Concept of Life; Gerhard Richter, Thought-Images: Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life; David Sherman, Sartre and Adorno: The Dialectics of Subjectivity)

Lynita K. Newswander
Utopia, Imagination, and a Crisis of Culture: Previewing the Future through Fiction
(Fredric Jameson, Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions)

Michèle C. Cone
Overcoming a Tainted Past
(Alexandra Laignel-Lavastine, Cioran, Eliade, Ionesco: l'oubli du fascisme: trois intellectuels roumains dans la tourmente du siècle)