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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: (De-)Domesticating Critical Theory: From Modernist Defeatism and the Liberal and Postmodern Turns to the Radicalising Project of Modernity.- Chapter 2: What is Critical (Marxist) Theory? Ideology-Critical Totality Analysis towards Emancipatory Praxis.- Chapter 3: Domesticating Critical Theory: Two Affirmative Turns after one Defeatist Dead End.- Chapter 4: The Liberal Turn of the Frankfurt School as its first Affirmative Turn.- Chapter 5: The Postmodern Turn in the Frankfurt School as its second Affirmative Turn.- Chapter 6: Beyond Modernist Defeatism, Liberalist Apology, and Postmodern Farewells: The Radicalising Project of Modernity.- Part II: Critical Marxist Theory and Political Autonomy. From the Need to May to the Revolution for Living.- Chapter 7: Which Criterion for which Critique? Towards the Prenormative Meta-Criterion of Political Autonomy as the Precondition of the Good Life.- Chapter 8: Mapping the Background of Political Autonomy: The Dialectics of Self (Voicing), Subject (Listening), and Human (Caring).- Chapter 9: Critical Marxist Theory of Political Autonomy: Social Freedom, Substantial Democratisation, the End of Prehistory, and the Revolution for Living.- Chapter 10: Conclusion: Critical Marxist Theory of Political Autonomy. Towards a Radical Politics of Maying and its Revolution for Living.
