Key figures and movements discussed in this volume include Schmitt, Adorno and the Frankfurt School, Arendt, Benjamin, Bataille, French Marxism, Black Existentialism, Saussure and Structuralism, Levi Strauss, Lacan and Late Pragmatism.

Series Preface; Introduction, David Ingram; 1. Carl Schmitt and early Western Marxism, Christopher Thornhill; 2. The origins and development of the model of early critical theory in the work of Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse, John Abromeit; 3. Theodor W. Adorno, Deborah Cook; 4. Walter Benjamin, James McFarland | 5. Hannah Arendt: rethinking the political, Peg Birmingham; 6. Georges Bataille, Peter Tracey Connor; 7. French Marxism in its heyday, William L. McBride; 8. Black existentialism, Lewis R. Gordon; 9. Ferdinand de Saussure and linguistic structuralism, Thomas F. Broden; 10. Claude Levi-Strauss, Brian C. J. Singer; 11. Jacques Lacan, Ed Pluth; 12. Late pragmatism, logical positivism, and their aftermath, David Ingram