Preface Acknowledgements List of Figures Translator’s Note 1 For Nonconformism  1.1 Transgression, Autobiography, Philosophy  1.2 Forms of Life  1.3 Psyche and History  1.4 Biopower and the Hidden Faculties of Existence (Eroticism, Friendship, Art) 2 The Era of State Capitalism: Morphology and Genesis Starting from Friedrich Pollock  2.1 Friedrich Pollock’s Ideal Type  2.2 Between Domination and Welfare 3 Expatriation, Disorientation, Islands  3.1 Leaving Germany (Eichmann Trial, Israel and the Atlantic Pact)  3.2 Free from the Coercion of the Reality Principle (Switzerland)  3.3 Beyond Instrumental Architecture (the Houses in Montagnola) 4 Automation and the Eclipse of Democracy  4.1 Era of Automation and Crisis: Pollock’s Prognosis  4.2 Is Critical Theory Antiquated? 5 Critical Theory and Longing for the Other  5.1 The Absent Alterity  5.2 Critique of Instrumental Reason and Religion  5.3 Critical Judaism (beyond Identity, beyond Sovereignty, beyond Zionism) Appendix: Figures Bibliography Index

As the descriptive copy notes, very few of the innumerable studies of the Frankfurt School have taken up the relationship between Horkheimer and Pollock. The originality of the story presented will be of interest to scholars of critical theory, but its narrative form makes this book far more accessible than most of the academic monographs dealing with the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and its various thinkers.