1. Adorno and Marx: Negative Dialectics and the Critique of Political Economy, Werner Bonefeld and Chris O’Kane (University of York, UK and University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA) Part I : Adorno and the New Reading of Marx 2. Cracking Economic Abstractions: Bringing Critical Theory Back-In, Werner Bonefeld (University of York, UK) 3. Adorno and the Critique of Political Economy, Dirk Braunstein and Niko Bobka (Institute of Social Research, Frankfurt, and University of Göttingen, Germany) 4. Adorno and the New reading of Marx, and Methodologies of Critique, Charlotte Baumann (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany) 5. Marxian Economics and the Critique of Political Economy, Chris O’Kane and Kirstin Munro (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA) Part II : Critique of Political Economy as Negative Dialectic of Society 6. Economic Objectivity and Negative Dialectics: On Class and Struggle, Werner Bonefeld (University of York, UK) 7. The Liquidation of the Individual as a Critique of Political Economy, Fabian Arzuaga (College of William and Mary, USA) 8. Society as Real Abstraction: Adorno’s Critique of Economic Nature, Charles Prusik (Villanova University, USA) 9. Society Maintains itself despite all Catastrophes that may Eventuate: Critical Theory, Negative Totality, and Permanent Catastrophe, Chris O’Kane (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA) Part III: Subjectivity and Pseudo Practice: on Social Praxis 10. Conceptuality and Social Practice, Werner Bonefeld (University of York, UK) 11. Non-identity, critique of labour and pseudo-praxis: extra-marginal palinlegomena on the dialectics of doing, Marcel Stoetzler (Bangor University, UK) Appendix 12. Introduction to ‘Theodor W. Adorno on Marx and the Basic Concepts of Sociological Theory. From a Seminar Transcript in the Summer Semester of 1962, Chris O’Kane (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA) 13. Marx and the Basic Concepts of Sociological Theory: From a Seminar Transcript in the Summer Semester of 1962, Theodor W Adorno

The illuminating studies gathered in this collection bring to the surface, for thought and discussion, capital’s submerged social content—concealed, as it must be, in the ‘objective illusion’ of the economy. One of capital’s deadly abstractions, the economy is neither the base of capitalist society, nor the source of its movement; it is, rather, the constellation of inverted appearances assumed by the capital-labour relation itself. Read this book because thinking Adorno and Marx together shows us how capital continues by moving on in the guise of something new—it always was the something worse yet to come.

In a time marked by crises and the rise of right-wing authoritarian populism, Critical Theory and the Critique of Society intends to renew the critical theory of capitalist society exemplified by the Frankfurt School and critical Marxism’s critiques of social domination, authoritarianism, and social regression by expounding the development of such a notion of critical theory, from its founding thinkers, through its subterranean and parallel strands of development, to its contemporary formulations. Editorial Board: Amy De’ath, Contemporary Literature and Culture, King’s College London Bev Best, Sociology, Concordia University Cat Moir, Germanic Studies, University of Sydney Charlotte Baumann, Philosophy, Sussex/TU Berlin Christian Lotz, Philosophy, Michigan State University Claudia Leeb, Political Science, Washington State University Dimitra Kotouza, Education, University of Lincoln Dirk Braunstein, Institute of Social Research, Frankfurt Duy Lap Nguyen, Modern and Classical Languages, University of Houston Edith Gonzalez, Humanities, Universidad Intercultural del Estado de Puebla, México Elena Louisa Lange, Japanese Studies/Philology and Philosophy, University of Zurich John Abromeit, History, SUNY, Buffalo State, USA Jordi Maiso, Philosophy, Complutense University of Madrid José Antonio Zamora Zaragoza, Philosophy, Spain Kirstin Munro, Political Science, University of Texas, Rio Grande Marcel Stoetzler, Sociology, University of Bangor Marina Vishmidt, Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths University Mathias Nilges, Literature, St Xavier University Matthias Rothe, German, University of Minnesota Moishe Postone†, History, University of Chicago Patrick Murray, Philosophy, Creighton University Rochelle Duford, Philosophy, University of Hartford Sami Khatib, Art, Leuphana University Samir Gandesha, Humanities, Simon Fraser University Verena Erlenbusch, Philosophy, University of Memphis