Nostalgia for a redeemed future : critical theory / edited by Stefano Giacchetti Ludovisi ; essays by G. Agostini Saavedra ... [and others].

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface / Stefano Giacchetti Ludovisi -- The concept of domination in Adorno's critical theory / Stefano Petrucciani -- The over-bourgeois and the dissolution of subjectivity : Adorno as Nietzsche's scholar / Stefano Giacchetti Ludovisi -- Philosophy and criticism : some observations on the notion of critical theory in Adorno / Francesco Saverio Trincia -- No easy way out : Adorno's negativism and the problem of normativity / Fabian Freyenhagen -- Adorno and the rediscovery of autonomy / Brian O'Connor -- Solidarity with metaphysics at the time of its downfall : Adorno contra Heidegger / Samir Gandesha -- Pied pipers and polymaths : the politics of Adorno's late lectures / Adrian Wilding -- Technological rationality and the problem of meaning / Andrew Feenberg -- Habermas, discourse ethics and doing justice to the exception : immigrants and the law / David Ingram -- The constitution of recognition : towards a critical constitutional theory / Giovani Agostini Saavedra -- Liberal society, emancipation and antisemitism, why current debates on antisemitism need more dialectic of Enlightenment / Marcel Stoetzler -- Safeguarding memory against catastrophic transmission : Walter Benjamin and the memory of the shoah / Raffaella Di Castro -- Herbert Marcuse : between technologisation and technocratisation / Maialen Galarraga -- "Hamlet could never know the peace of a 'good ending'" : Benjamin, Derrida, and the melancholy of critical theory / Andrew Cutrofello -- Walter Benjamin : the afterlife of an artwork as cognitive heterocracy / Brunella Antomarini -- Equivocating aura : on Benjamin's conception of mechanical reproduction / Adam Berg -- Walter Benjamin's theology of the corpse : allegory in Lohenstein's sophonisba / Dana Johnson -- Adorno and the autonomy of art / Andy Hamilton -- Toward the aesthetics of emancipation? : critical theory and the new pragmatism / Wojciech Malecki.