Special Issue on Debates in Contemporary Culture

Russell Berman, Paul Piccone and Richard Wolin
Introduction

Richard Wolin
Modernism vs. Postmodernism

Russell Berman
Modern Art and Desublimation

Joan Roelofs
Foundations and the Supreme Court

Albrecht Wellmer
Truth, Semblance and Reconciliation: Adorno's Aesthetic Redemption of Modernity

Peter Burger
The Decline of the Modern Age

Martin Jay
Hierarchy and the Humanities: The Radical Implications of a Conservative Idea

Agnes Heller
Lukacs and the Holy Family

Victor Zaslavsky
Soviet Society and the World Systems Analysis


Notes And Commentary

Kenneth Asher
Deconstruction's Use and Abuse of Nietzsche

James D. Herbert
The Political Origins of Abstract Expressionist Art Criticism

Diane Ghirardo
Past or Post Modern in Architectural Fashion

Douglas Kellner
Critical Theory and the Culture Industries: A Reassessment

Moishe Gonzales
Kellner's Critical Theory: A Reassessment


Reviews

Casey Blake
(James Sloan Allen, The Romance of Commerce and Culture: Capitalism, Modernism and the Chicago-Aspen Crusade for Cultural Reform; Serge Guilbaut, How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom and the Cold War)

Michael S. Roth
(Edward Shils, Tradition; Josef Haym Yerushalmi, Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory)

Robert Ehrlich
(Christopher Lasch, The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times)

Michael Bernhard and Joseph McCahery
(Alain Touraine et al., Soldiarity: The Analysis of a Soviet Movement: Poland, 1980-81)