New Critical Theory surveys contemporary leftist thought while introducing the tenets of this new form of critical theory. Beginning with an exploration of the relationship between Marxism, Habermas, and the politics of identity, William S. Wilkerson and Jeffrey R. Paris present a collection that critiques the globalization of capital. The development of personality appears as subject to socialized standards in an age of global capitalism. Only after scrutinizing the effects of such a system can liberation be found. The essays within join Critical Theory with postmodern insights on language and subjectivity to provide a more comprehensive view of emancipatory social theory. Through this and other refelctions on critical race, gender, and queer theories, Wilkerson and Paris emerge with an encompassing volume defining New Critical Theory.

William S. Wilkerson is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Jeffrey R. Paris is visiting professor at the University of San Francisco.

Chapter 1 Foreword: Back to the Future: Marcuse and the New Critical TheoryChapter 2 Introduction: Why a New Critical Theory?Part 3 Visions and MethodsChapter 4 Obstinate Critique and the Possibility of the FutureChapter 5 Redemption in the Impasse: An Other CommunismChapter 6 Toward a New Critical TheoryChapter 7 Inhabiting Hope: Contributions to a New Materialist PhenomenologyPart 8 Intersections beyond PostmodernismChapter 9 Marcuse and the Quest for Radical SubjectivityChapter 10 Challenging the Colonial Contract: The Zapatistas Insurgent ImaginationPart 11 Critique of TechnologyChapter 12 Marcuse and the Aestheticization of TechnologyChapter 13 Women Carrying Water: At the Crossroads of Technology and Critical TheoryChapter 14 Chronotopology: Critique of Spatiotemporal RegimesPart 15 Race, Sexuality, and the Normative Foundations of CriticismChapter 16 Can Queer Theory Be Critical Theory?Chapter 17 The Mother Wit of Justice: Eros and Hubris in the African-American ContextChapter 18 Imagining the HorizonPart 19 Index