Research Handbook on Critical Theory

Edited by Douglas Kellner and Rainer Winter

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This insightful Research Handbook examines the development and continuing relevance of critical theory. Expert contributors assess the central concepts and differing research perspectives, providing a panoramic and global overview of this approach and its significance for understanding the present.

Keywords: Critical Theory; Power; Critique; Domination; Emancipation; Liberation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781800373754
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Critical Theory

Douglas Kellner and Rainer Winter

Ch 2 Aesthetics

Gerhard Schweppenhäuser

Ch 3 Class consciousness

Heiner Heiland, John Lütten and Martin Seeliger

Ch 4 Commodity fetishism: Marx revisited

Lauren Langman and Peter Hudis

Ch 5 Crisis

Jeremiah Morelock and Felipe Ziotti Narita

Ch 6 Critique

Douglas Kellner

Ch 7 The culture industry in late capitalism

Rainer Winter

Ch 8 The end of labour: critical theory on the economy

Rodney Doody

Ch 9 Education for Enlightenment according to Marxist philosopher Theodor W. Adorno

Zvi Tauber

Ch 10 Material(-ised) ideology: reconceptualising the object of ideology-critique

Lukas Meisner

Ch 11 Liberation and new sensibility

Charles Reitz

Ch 12 Forms of liberation in the Marxist tradition

Kenneth Surin

Ch 13 The ‘coming world’: messianic time and anarchist life

James Martel

Ch 14 Nature

Carl Cassegård

Ch 15 Negative dialectics

Jordi Maiso

Ch 16 Herbert Marcuse and one-dimensionality: the continuing relevance of an idea

Terry Maley

Ch 17 Public sphere

Victor Kempf, Martin Seeliger and Sebastian Sevignani

Ch 18 Reification

Eric-John Russell

Ch 19 Marcuse on resistance

Charles Reitz

Ch 20 Revolt and revolution

Charles Reitz

Ch 21 Marcuse on science and experience

Andrew Feenberg

Ch 22 Social character

Matheus Romanetto and Kieran Durkin

Ch 23 State capitalism

Douglas Kellner

Ch 24 Utopia

Peter-Erwin Jansen and Inka Engel

Ch 25 Authoritarian populism

Douglas Kellner

Ch 26 Critical hermeneutics

Kurt C.M. Mertel

Ch 27 Critical media literacy for rethinking our relationship with nature

Jeff Share

Ch 28 Critical pedagogy

Peter Mayo

Ch 29 Dialogue

Hans-Herbert Kögler

Ch 30 The world of ideas and things: the political ecology of ecomedia

Antonio López

Ch 31 Film

Carsten Heinze

Ch 32 Humanism

Kevin B. Anderson

Ch 33 Law

David Ingram

Ch 34 Neoliberalism and Adorno

Charles Prusik

Ch 35 Nostalgia as critique

Peter V. Zima

Ch 36 Performative social research

Rainer Winter

Ch 37 Political organisation

Alexander Neupert-Doppler

Ch 38 Political socialisation

Maria Tsenekidou

Ch 39 Resistance

Daniela Holzer

Ch 40 Social media and critical theory

Christian Fuchs

Ch 41 The problematic consequences of social media

Rainer Winter

Ch 42 Social movements

Lauren Langman

Ch 43 Social work

Alexander Neupert-Doppler

Ch 44 Spectacle

Tom Bunyard

Ch 45 Technocapitalism and AI

Douglas Kellner

Ch 46 Youth

Douglas Kellner

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