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Contents
- Introduction: what is critical theory?
- 1. The Frankfurt School
- 2. A matter of method
- 3. Critical theory and modernism
- 4. Alienation and reification
- 5. Enlightened illusions
- 6. The utopian laboratory
- 7. The happy consciousness
- 8. The great refusal
- 9. From resignation to renewal
- 10. Unfinished tasks: solidarity, resistance, and global society
