Introduction
1. Ideology Critique in a Neoliberal Age
2. Sociology and Critique
3. The Dialectics of Critique and Progress
4. The Embedded Market and Ideology Critique.
5. Common Cause? The Political Rationalities of Neo-liberalism and Populism.
6. De-politicizing Needs: Therapy Culture and the ‘Happiness Turn’
7. Rationality Potentials of Intimacy: In Search of a Critical Pulse.
8. The Critic’s Role: Debating Nancy Fraser’s Feminism.
9. Learning from the Budapest School Women: The Politics of Need Interpretation.
Conclusion
Biography
Pauline Johnson is Associate Professor of Sociology at Macquarie University Australia. She is the author of Marxist Aesthetics and Habermas: Rescuing the Public Sphere and Feminism as Radical Humanism, and co-editor of Culture and Enlightenment: Essays for György Markus and Modern Privacies: Shifting Boundaries, New Forms.
