Front cover -- Current Perspectives in Social Theory -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Editor -- List of Contributors -- Part I. A Programmatic Introduction -- Chapter 1. How social science is impossible without critical theory: The immersion of mainstream approaches in time and space -- Introduction -- Dilemmas of social science -- Considering context: confronting the specificity of modern societies -- Social science versus critical theoryquest -- Critical theory versus mainstream social sciencequest -- Critical theory infin mainstream approachesquest50 -- Social science in the age of globalization: reconciling the irreconcilablequest -- Notes -- References -- Part II. Two Agendas of Critical Theory -- Chapter 2. Critical conundrums - logic and politics in Frankfurt critical theory prior to the linguistic turn -- I -- II -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3. The architecture of social critique: Three models of ideology critique and the legacy of the Frankfurt School -- 1. The Frankfurt School and the Problem of Ideological Power -- 2. A socio-psychological model of ideology critique. The ambivalent program of interdisciplinary materialism -- 3. A model of isolated critique: The speculative concept of a critical theory of instrumental reason -- 4. A politico-sociological model and the problem of free-standing critique: A reorientation of ideology critique -- References -- Part III. Applications of Critical Theory -- Chapter 4. Is universality the object of globalization? Political geographies of contingent universality -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Where is universalityquest what is particularityquest -- 3. Universal space, nature, and the floating signifier of race -- 4. Hegel's universality as a problem of space -- 5. Regional geography as an expression of universality -- 6. Ratzel on borders and race -- 7. Grossraum versus universalism.

8. Hegemony and contingent universality -- 9. The constitutive outside and civil society -- 10. Scales of translation -- 11. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5. From the culture industry to the society of the spectacle: Critical theory and the situationist international -- Introduction -- Theories of consumer capitalism in Western Marxism: Lukács, the Frankfurt School, and Lefebvre -- Toward the society of the spectacle: Central concerns of the situationist international -- Toward a critical theory of entertainment and spectacle -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6. Signifying the Jew: antisemitic workers and Jewish stereotypes during World War II -- From inevitability to inquiry -- Labor study data and methods -- Antisemitism as an instrument of domination -- Broad antisemitic themes in the different antisemitic groups (A-D) -- The hatred of stereotypical Jewish traits -- The antisemitic hatred of clannishness -- Jewish aggressiveness -- Jewish sexuality -- Antisemitism and ''Jewish personal qualities'' -- An overview and summary -- Notes -- References -- Part IV. The Critical Theory of Herbert Marcuse -- Chapter 7. Herbert Marcuse and contemporary social theory: Beyond the consumer society -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Affluence and emancipation -- 3. Rethinking the performance principle -- 4. Re-thinking repressive de-sublimation -- 5. Imagination, play and well-being -- 6. Conclusion: future directions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8. Restricted eros and one-dimensional morality: a Marcusean reading of contemporary politics -- Introduction -- 1. One-dimensionality and the performance principle -- 2. Restricted Eros (libido) and the creation of one-dimensional humanity -- 3. Politics, pseudo morality, and the negation of the political and the moral -- 4. Eros: the psychic remainder -- References.

Chapter 9. The radical present: the psychopolitics of transformation in Marcuse -- Notes -- Part V. The Future of Critical Theory -- Chapter 10. Pedagogy against ''dis-utopia'': from conscientization to the education of desire -- Critical sociology and the possibility of possibility -- Critical theory and critical pedagogy: challenges in theory and practice -- Post-modern capitalism - the 'end of social dreams'quest -- Need, desire and hope in critical theory -- Classical roots of critical-utopian education -- From conscientization to the 'education of desire' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part VI. Critical Theories: Beyond the Frankfurt School -- Chapter 11. Governmental rationality and popular sovereignty -- 1. Rationalities of government -- 2. Popular sovereignty and the modalities of resistance -- 3. Governmental rationality as symbolic struggle -- 4. Counter-government and the politics of truth -- 5. Governmental rationality from below -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 12. Public sociology, Marxism, and Marx -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- VIII -- IX -- X -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 13. The sociological theory of C. Wright Mills: toward a critique of postmodernity -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References.