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This collection of essays discusses the relationship between Hegel and the Frankfurt School tradition of critical theory. The book covers a number of important topics, including modernity, dialectics, the Ethical Life, intersubjectivity, emancipation, rationality, critical political theory, and economic institutions.

An exploration of the links between Carl Schmitt's philosophy & the contemporaneous theories of the Frankfurt school (Walter Benjamin, Otto Kirchheimer, & Jurgen Habermas), with a focus on Habermas's analysis of the political paradox in Schmitt's ideas. Schmitt's antiliberalist leftist theory initially attracted the Frankfurt school thinkers. They concurred with his political analysis of law, his criticisms of the liberal democracy's positivistic elements, & the ties between direct democracy & social homogeneity. However, he was criticized for sympathizing with fascism, & was cast out from the intellectual circle following Herbert Marcuse's 1933 repudiation of his antiliberalism. Benjamin & Schmitt aligned on issues of liberalism & parliamentarism, while Franz Neumann & Kirchheimer, the political theorists of critical theory, agreed with Schmitt's critique of majority rule & the constitutional state. Although Habermas's work builds on rhetorical & structural elements of Schmitt's antiliberalism arguments, political differences lead Habermas to adopt only the normative, radical choice of legality against legitimacy. J. Sadler