Introduction / Stephen Eric Bronner and Douglas MacKay Kellner -- The state of contemporary social philosophy and the tasks of an institute for social research / Max Horkheimer -- Psychoanalysis and sociology / Erich Fromm -- On sociology of literature / Leo Lowenthal -- Notes on science and the crisis / Max Horkheimer -- Philosophy and critical theory / Herbert Marcuse -- The Jews and Europe / Max Horkheimer -- State capitalism : its possibilities and limitations / Frederick Pollock -- From ontology to technology : fundamental tendencies of industrial society / Herbert Marcuse -- The culture industry reconsidered / Theodor W. Adorno -- The public sphere : an encyclopedia article / J(c)?rgen Habermas -- The mass ornament / Siegfried Kracauer -- Lyric poetry and society / Theodor W. Adorno