Preface Acknowledgments CHAPTER ONE T.W. Adorno; or, Historical Tropes CHAPTER Two Versions of a Marxist Hermeneutic Ⅰ WALTER BENJAMIN; OR NOSTALGIA ?、? MARCUSE AND SCHILLER ?、? ERNST BLOCH AND THE FUTUP, CHAPTER THREE The Case for Georg Lukacs CHAPTER FOUR Sartre and History CHAPTER FIVE Towards Dialectical Criticism Bibliography Index