Rethinking the Communicative Turn: Adorno, Habermas, and the Problem of Communicative Freedom Book

	Acknowledgments
	Abbreviations
1	Introduction	1
1.1	The Frankfurt School and Habermas: A Snapshot view	3
1.2	Conflicting Paradigmatic Issues	11
2	Critical Theory and the Eclipse of 'Ideology': The Early Frankfurt Vision and Its Transformation	17
2.1	The Program of Critical Theory and the Problem of 'Ideology' Critique	21
2.2	The Dialectic of Enlightenment	41
2.3	Concluding Remarks	65
3	Habermas and the Critique of Reification	67
3.1	The Habermasian Critique of Reification in Late Capitalism	67
3.2	Capitalism and Social Crisis	75
3.3	Real Abstraction and Ideology	87
3.4	Concluding Remarks	93
4	From the Pursuit of Truth to the Paradoxes of Aporia and Contradiction: Habermas and Adorno	95
4.1	The Primacy of Language-Use	96
4.2	Validity and the Ethical Force of Language-Use	105
4.3	The Performative Contradiction in the Radical Critique of Domination	118
4.4	A Concluding Note on Contradiction and Dialectic	139
5	Recovering the Ethical and Political Force of Adorno's Aesthetic-Critical Theory	143
5.1	The Priority of the Object and the Passion for Critique	144
5.2	Language and the Subject: Adorno	158
5.3	Art and the Recovery of Negativity and Non-Identity: Toward a Politics of the 'Mimetic Shudder'	168
6	Conclusion	193
	Notes	201
	Bibliography	221
	Index	237