Contents: 1. Introduction: From the First Edition to the Second 2. Sketching the Lineage: The Critical Method and the Idealist Tradition 3. Karl Korsch: Western Marxism and the Origins of Critical Theory 4. Philosophical Anticipations: A Commentary on the "Reification" Essay of Georg Lukacs 5. Utopian Projections: In Honor of Ernst Bloch 6. Horkheimer's Road 7. Reclaiming the Fragments: On the Messianic Materialism of Walter Benjamin 8. Political Aesthetics: Reflections on the Expressionism Debate 9. Dialectics at a Standstill: A Methodological Inquiry into the Philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno 10. Fromm in America 11. The Anthropological Break: Aesthetics and Politics in the Work of Herbert Marcuse 12. Jurgen Habermas and the Language of Politics 13. Critical Theory and Civil Society 14. Points of Departure: Sketches for a Critical Theory with Public Aims