1  Cover

      2  Title Page

      3  Copyright Page

      4  Dedication

      5  Illustrations

      6  Acknowledgements

      7  Introduction: What Was Theory? Notes

      8  1965 The Hour of Theory

      9  1 Federal Republic of Adorno Reflections from Damaged Life Culture after Working Hours In the Literary Supermarket Adorno Answers Are Your Endeavours Aimed at Changing the World? Notes

      10  2 In the Suhrkamp Culture New Leftists He Didn’t Write School of Hard Books Paperback Theory Birth of a Genre Notes

      11  1970 Endless Discussions

      12  3 Ill-Made Books Theoretical Practice Smash Bourgeois Copyright! Mondays, Fridays and Sundays The Disorder of Discourse Notes

      13  4 Wolfsburg Empire Proletarian Public Sphere In the Land of Class Struggle The Lightness of Being Communist A Fateful Stroke of Luck Notes

      14  1977 Reading French in the German Autumn

      15  5 (Possible) Reasons for the Happiness of Thought All Kinds of Escapes Intensity Is Not a Feeling The Laugh of Merve Vague Thinkers Notes

      16  6 The Reader as Partisan The Death of the Author The Pleasure of the Text Children’s Books A Different Mode of Production Lying on Water Notes

      17  7 Foucault and the Terrorists A Schweppes in Paris Political Tourists Vermin On Tunix Beach Notes

      18  1984 The End of History

      19  8 Critique of Pure Text The Master Thinkers Adults Only Sola Scriptura Aesthetics of Counter-Enlightenment A Little Materialism Notes

      20  9 Into the White Cube The Mountain of Truth Be Smart – Take Part German