Ebook: The Palgrave handbook of critical theory

List of tables -- List of contributors -- 1. Introduction: what is critical theory? / Michael J. Thompson -- Part I. The Hegelian-Marxist roots of critical theory: 2. Critical theory and resistance: on antiphilosophy and the philosophy of praxis / Stephen Eric Bronner; 3. Marx's influence on the early Frankfurt School / Chad Kautzer; 4. Lukács' theory of reification and the tradition of critical theory / Konstantinos Kavoulakos; 5. Totality, reason, dialectics: the importance of Hegel for critical theory from Lukács to Honneth / Omar Dahbour; 6. Why students of the Frankfurt School will have to read Lukács / Andrew Feenberg -- Part II. Critical epistemology and the aims of social research: 7. Critical theory and the historical transformations of capitalist modernity / Moishe Postone; 8. Critical theory as radical comparative-historical research / Harry F. Dahms; 9. The Frankfurt School and the critique of instrumental reason / Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker; 10. Materialism in critical theory: Marx and the early Horkheimer / David A. Borman; 11. Critique as the epistemic framework of the critical social sciences / Michael J. Thompson.;This handbook is the only major survey of critical theory from philosophical, political, sociological, psychological and historical vantage points. It emphasizes not only on the historical and philosophical roots of critical theory, but also its current themes and trends as well as future applications and directions.