Introduction

the Frankfurt school and the problem of religion

1-12

Max Horkheimer's supposed "religious conversion"

a semantic analysis

15-28

On the usefulness and uselessness of religious illusions

29-41

Emerging "orders"

the contemporary relevance of religion and teaching in Walter Benjamin's early thought

45-63

Religion, experience, politics

on Erich Unger and Walter Benjamin

64-84

Allegory, metonymy and creatureliness

Walter Benjamin and the religious roots of modern art

85-99

Law and religion in early critical theory

103-127

Jewish law and tradition in the early work of Erich Fromm

128-144

Critical theory and the new thinking

a preliminary approach

145-153

Does dialectic of enlightenment rest on religious foundations?

157-170

Secularisation, myth, anti-semitism

adorno and Horkheimer's dialectic of enlightenment and Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms

171-189