Rethinking the communicative turn : Adorno Habermas and the problem of communicative freedom The Frankfurt School and Habermas: A Snapshot View Conflicting Paradigmatic Issues Critical Theory and the Eclipse of Ideology: The Early Frankfurt Vision and Its Transformation The Program of Critical Theory and the Problem of Ideology Critique The Dialectic of Enlightenment Habermas and the Critique of Reification The Habermasian Critique of Reification in Late Capitalism Capitalism and Social Crisis Real Abstraction and Ideology From the Pursuit of Truth to the Paradoxes of Aporia and Contradiction: Habermas and Adorno The Primacy of Language Use Validity and the Ethical Force of Language Use The Performative Contradiction in the Radical Critique of Domination A Concluding Note on Contradiction and Dialectic Recovering the Ethical and Political Force of Adornos Aesthetic Critical Theory The Priority of the Object and the Passion for Critique Language and the Subject: Adorno Art and the Recovery of Negativity and Non Identity: Toward a Politics of the Mimetic Shudder. Contrasting aesthetic versus linguistic centered visions for critical theory and the analysis of contemporary democratic theory and society Martin Morris draws special attention to the concept of communicative freedom. He problematizes the paradigm shift within critical theory from the philosophy of the subject to the communicative action theory championed by Jurgen Habermas by opposing Habermass reconstruction of critical theory to that of Theodor W. Adorno. Jacket