Troubled Legitimization

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 – HORKHEIMER’S SHADOW AND ADORNO’S SMILE. THE FRANKFURT TRADITION
1.1 - Biographical Notes on a Democratic Critique of Culture
1.2 - A Young Man Adorno Esteems Highly Arrives at IfS
1.3 – The Crisis of the Subject and the System’s Hold
1.4 – Capital and State in the Frankfurt Analysis

CHAPTER 2 – WHAT SOCIETY THINKS: STUDENTS AND PUBLIC OPINION
2.1 – Political Consciousness in Lecture Halls
2.2 - Democracy as a Historical Process. Reflections on the Concept of Political Participation (1959)
2.3 – The Neutralized Citizen
2.4 - Democracy and Students: A Hope
2.5 – For a History of Middle-Class Public Thought. Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1962)
2.6 – Venues for Middle-Class Discussion: Cafés and Salons
2.7 – The Public Sphere: Changes and Institutionalization
2.8 – Mediating Between the State and Society. Public Sphere (An Encyclopedia Entry) (1964)

CHAPTER 3 – LEFT-WING FASCISTS! CRITICISM AND SELF-CRITICISM IN 1968 GERMANY
3.1 – A Radical Critique of Democracy
3.2 - Young, Attractive, Revolutionary. The Protagonist Student Movement
3.3. – Critical Theorists? What a Disappointment!
3.4 - California versus Frankfurt. Answers to Herbert Marcuse (1968)
3.5 – On Some of the Necessary Conditions to Revolutionize Late-Capitalistic Societies (1968)
3.6 – Or The Deal’s Off! How to Threaten the System

CHAPTER 4 – HOW CAPITALISM WORKS. STUDIES ON LEGITIMATION AND ITS CRISIS
4.1 – ‘There is great disorder under the heavens’. Legitimation Crisis (1973)
4.2 – We Defend Consensus from the Top. Dynamics of Crisis
4.3 – In Search of System Rationality
4.4 – The Unbalanced Balance. Towards a Reconstruction of Historical Materialism (1973-1975)
4.5 – The Techniques of Legitimation
4.6 – From Society to System. A Sociology of Crisis
4.7 – Society, Technology, Political Order
Theory and Practice in the Technological Society (1967)

CHAPTER 5 – DEMOCRATIC OLIGARCHY. ECONOMICS AND POLITICS IN POLITICAL PARTIES, MOVEMENTS, NEW CAPITALISM
5.1 – Working for the King of Prussia. State and Capital
5.2 – The Same Old Story. On New Capitalism’s Mode of Operation 67
5.3 – New Capitalism: From Public Intervention to Science and Technology 68
5.4 – Beyond Marx. Politics is No Longer a Superstructure 70
5.5 – We Still Exist! On the Latency of Class Conflict 71
5.6 – Room for Movements. Democracy and Political Parties in Crisis 73
5.7 – The Troubled Dynamics of Mass Consensus 75
5.8 – Democracy as Protection from Egoistic Individualism 77

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