Critical Theory and Society. A Reader

Editors Introduction Part I: Institute for Social Research and Its Original Programme 1. State of Social Philosophy and the Tasks of an Institute of Social Research, Max Horkheimer 2. Psychoanalysis and Sociology, Erich Fromm 3. On the Sociology of Literature, Leo Lowenthal 4. Notes on Science and the Crisis, Max Horkheimer 5. Philosophy and Critical Theory, Hebert Marcuse Part II: Fragments of a Theory of Society 6. Jews and Europe, Max Horkheimer 7. State Capitalism: Its Possibilities and Limitations, Frederick Pollock 8. From Ontology to Technology: Fundamental Tendencies of Industrial Society, Herbert Marcuse 9. Culture Industry Reconsidered, T.W. Adorno 10. Public Sphere, Jurgen Habermas Part III: Cultural Criticism and the Critique of Mass Culture 11. Mass Ornament, Siegfried Kracauer 12. Lyric Poetry and Society, T.W. Adorno 13. Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of European Intelligentsia, Walter Benjamin 14. Historical Perspectives on Popular Culture, Leo Lowenthal 15. Perennial Fashion, T.W. Adorno Part IV: Critical Theory and Psychology 16. Politics and Psychoanalysis, Erich Fromm 17. Introduction to Authoritarian Personality, T.W. Adorno 18. Obsolescence of the Freudian Concept of Man, Herbert Marcuse 19. Crisis of Psychoanalysis, Erich Fromm Part V: Critical Visions 20. Theses on the Philosophy of History, Walter Benjamin 21. Notes on the Institute Activities, Max Horkheimer 22. Society, T.W. Adorno 23. Liberation from the Affluent Society, Herbert Marcuse 24. Reification of the Proletariat, Herbert Marcuse 25. Tasks of a Critical Theory of Society, Jurgen Habermas