No social science without critical theory / edited by Harry F. Dahms, Department of Sociology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.

Originally published: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references.

How social science is impossible without critical theory: the immersion of mainstream approaches in time and space / Harry F. Dahms -- Critical conundrums: logic and politics in Frankfurt critical theory prior to the linguistic turn / Robert A. Gorman -- The architecture of social critique: three models of ideology critique and the legacy of the Frankfurt school / David Strecker -- Is universality the object of globalization? Political geographies of contingent universality / Wolfgang Natter -- From the culture industry to the society of the spectacle: critical theory and the situationist international / Kevin Fox Gothan and David A. Krier -- Signifying the Jew: antisemitic workers and Jewish stereotypes during World War II / Mark P. Worrell -- Herbert Marcuse and contemporary social theory: beyond the consumer society / Philip Walsh -- Restricted eros and one-dimensional morality: a Marcusean reading of contemporary politics / Arnold Farr -- The radical present: the psychopolitics of transformation in Marcuse / James E. Block -- Pedagogy against "Dis-utopia": from Conscientization to the education of desire / Sarah S. Amsler -- Governmental rationality and popular sovereignty / Kevin Olson -- Public sociology, Marxism, and Marx / Paul Paolucci -- The sociological theory of C. Wright Mills: toward a critique of postmodernity / Steven P. Dandaneau.

"Since the linguistic turn in Frankfurt School critical theory during the 1970s, philosophical concerns have become increasingly important to its overall agenda, at the expense of concrete social-scientific inquiries. At the same time, each of the individual social sciences have been moving further and further away from the challenge key representatives of the so-called "first generation" of Frankfurt School critical theorists identified as central to the promise and responsibility of social science: to illuminate those dimensions of modern societies that prevent the reconciliation of facts and norms. This volume highlights the problematic nature of mainstream perspectives, and the growing need to reaffirm how the specific kind of critique the early Frankfurt School theorists advocated is not less, but far more important today."--Publisher.