PrefaceIntroduction: on the battle for critical theoryPart I: Social pathology and the crisis of critical theory1 Social pathology: the ‘explosive charge’ of critical theory2 Distorted by recognition3 Pathologies of recognitionPart II: Foundations of pathology diagnosing critique4 Rousseau and the foundations of pathology diagnosing social criticism5 Hegelian-Marxism: pathologies of reason, pathologies of productionPart III: A Fromm-Marcuse synthesis6 Erich Fromm and pathological normalcy7 The pathological normalcy of what? Towards a Fromm-Marcuse synthesisConclusion: the Frankfurt School beyond recognitionReferencesIndex