ABSTRACT
The crisis~ of the "project of modernity" (Habermas) is, at the same time, a crisis of critical theories of society and culture that have radically questioned bourgeois culture and capitalist society and economy from the perspective of a utopia of enlightened rationality. A number of parallel recent social and political problems, developments, and
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|80 pages
Critical Theories of Society
part 2|23 pages
Neocorporatism vs. Representative Democracy
part 3|39 pages
Mass Media and Mass Culture
chapter |19 pages
The Symbolic Universe of American Forces Television in Germany
"And That's the Way It Is" (*)
part 4|105 pages
Radical Criticism and Cultural Studies
part 5|121 pages
Deconstruction and Postmodernism