Grandeur and Twilight of Radical Universalism
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. The Classic Paradigm -- 1 The Theory of Need in Marx -- 2 Marx and Modernity -- 3 The Legacy of Marxian Ethics -- 4 The Sphinx of the Revolution -- 5 Marx and the Permanent French Revolutions -- 6 Marx and Justice -- 7 Marx and the "Liberation of Humankind" -- II. Orthodoxy and Negativity -- 8 The Unknown Masterpiece -- 9 Lukács in Weimar -- 10 Historical Novel and History in Lukács -- 11 Lukács and Benjamin: Parallels and Contrasts -- 12 Lukács, Benjamin, Theater -- 13 Lukács and the Holy Family -- 14 Adorno and the Vicissitudes of Rationalized Music -- 15 Weber and the Rationalization of Music -- 16 Group Interest, Collective Consciousness, and the Role of the Intellectual in Lukács and Goldmann -- 17 Lucien Goldmann as the "Recipient" of Lukács -- 18 Can Poetry Be Written After the Holocaust? (On Adorno's Dictum) -- III. The Disintegration of the Paradigm -- 19 Decision as Will or as Choice -- 20 Beyond Political Theology? -- 21 Hannah Arendt on the "Vita Contemplativa" -- 22 The Positivism Debate as a Turning Point in German Postwar Theory -- 23 Habermas and Marxism -- 24 The Discourse Ethics of Habermas: Critique and Appraisal -- 25 With Castoriadis to Aristotle -- from Aristotle to Kant -- from Kant to Us -- 26 Castoriadis and the Redefinition of Socialism -- 27 Sociology as the Defetishization of Modernity -- 28 On "Strong Coding" in Philosophy -- 29 The Status of Postmodernity -- 30 Between Relativism and Fundamentalism: Hermeneutic as Europe's Mainstream Political and Moral Tradition -- Index.