Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1 Critique, hope, power : challenges of contemporary critical theory / Robert Sinnerbrink, Jean-Philippe Deranty and Nicholas Smith
  • Ch. 2. Providence lost : 'September 11' and the history of evil / Genevieve Lloyd
  • Ch. 3. Hope and critical theory / Nicholas H. Smith
  • Ch. 4. Hope, critique, and utopia / Craig Browne
  • Ch. 5. Hegel, Habermas, and the spirit of critical theory / John Grumley
  • Ch. 6. Habermas : a reasonable utopian? / Pauline Johnson
  • Ch. 7. Critical theory, democratic justice and globalisation / Shane O'Neil
  • Ch. 8. Radical democracy and an abolitionist concept of justice : a critique of Habermas' theory of justice / Emmanuel Renault
  • Ch. 9. The loss of nature in Axel Honneth's social philosophy : rereading Mead with Merleau-Ponty / Jean-Philippe Deranty
  • Ch. 10. Pierre Bourdieu : from neo-Kantian to Hegelian critical social theory / Paul Redding
  • Ch. 11. Reason and the restlessness of the speculative : Jean-Luc Nancy's reading of Hegel / Simon Lumsden
  • Ch. 12. Polytheism, monotheism and public space : between Levinas and Arendt / Peter Schmiedgen
  • Ch. 13. From Machenschaft of bipolitics : a genealogical critique of biopower / Robert Sinnerbrink
  • Ch. 14. Foucault, critique and rights / Paul Patton.