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
The book contains a selection of revised papers written for the international conference "Critical Theories of Society and Culture in the United States and West Germany Since the 1960s: Influences, Convergences, and Divergences," organized by the Center for North American Studies and Research at Frankfurt University in June, 1984.
