Introduction Chapter 1: Georg Lukács and Critical Theory: The Long Goodbye
Georg Lukács Chapter 2: Matthew, Mark, Lukács, and Bloch: From Aesthetic Utopianism to Religious Messianism Chapter 3: Lukács's Theatres of History: Drama, Action, and Historical Agency Chapter 4: The Non-Contemporaneity of Lukács and Lukács: Cold War Contradictions and the Aesthetics of Visual Art
Theodor W. Adorno? Chapter 5: Adorno and/or Avantgarde: Looking Back at Surrealism Chapter 6: Avantgarde and Kitsch, or, Teddy the Musical! Chapter 7: Remediating Opera: Media and Musical Drama in Adorno and Kluge
Critical Theory Chapter 8: Perversion and Utopia: Sade, Fourier, and Critical Theory Chapter 9: Interdisciplinary Legacies: Critical Theory and Authoritarian Culture Chapter 10: Prophecies of Mass Deception: Dewey, Trotsky, and the Moscow Show-Trials
Conclusion Chapter 11: Tell-Trials, or, Gyuri the Radio-Play