Table of Contents
Introduction: Against the Current 1
Part I 1900-1920 13
1 Condition: Critical 15
2 Fathers and Sons, and Other Conflicts 33
Part II The 1920s 65
3 The World Turned Upside Down 67
4 A Bit of the Other 97
Part III The 1930s 123
5 Show Us the Way to the Next Whiskey Bar 125
6 The Power of Negative Thinking 137
7 In the Crocodile's Jaws 159
8 Modernism and All That Jazz 175
9 A New World 191
Part IV The 1940s 209
10 The Road to Port Bon 211
11 In League with the Devil 220
12 The Fight Against Fascism 247
Part V The 1950s 259
13 The Ghost Sonata 261
14 The Liberation of Eros 280
Part VI The 1960s 301
15 Up Against the Wall, Motherfuckers 303
16 Philosophising with Molotov Cocktails 325
Part VII Back From the Abyss - Habermas and Critical Theory After the 1960s 351
17 The Frankfurt Spider 353
18 Consuming Passions: Critical Theory in the New Millennium 383
Further Reading 393
Notes 399
Index 429