Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vi
4. Acknowledgments viii
5. Chapter 1 Georg Lukács and Critical Theory: The Long Goodbye 1
6. Part I Georg Lukács
7. Chapter 2 Matthew, Mark, Lukács, and Bloch: From Aesthetic Utopianism to Religious Messianism 31
8. Chapter 3 Lukács’s Theatres of History: Drama, Action, and Historical Agency 55
9. Chapter 4 The Non-Contemporaneity of Lukács and Lukács: Cold War Contradictions and the Aesthetics of Visual Art 81
10. Part II Theodor W. Adorno
11. Chapter 5 Adorno and/or Avant-Garde: Looking Back at Surrealism 105
12. Chapter 6 Avant-Garde and Kitsch, or, Teddy the Musical! 124
13. Chapter 7 Remediating Opera: Media and Musical Drama in Adorno and Kluge 144
14. Part III Critical Theory
15. Chapter 8 Perversion and Utopia: Sade, Fourier, and Critical Theory 169
16. Chapter 9 Interdisciplinary Legacies: Critical Theory and Authoritarian Culture 195
17. Chapter 10 Prophecies of Mass Deception: Dewey, Trotsky, and the Moscow Show Trials 225
18. Chapter 11 Tell-Trials, or, Gyuri the Radio Play 258
19. Index 263