Introduction: thinking otherwise -- Wozu noch philosophie? -- Going after Adorno -- Critical retrieval -- Transgression or transformation -- Menke's Derridean reconstruction -- Liberation and deconstruction -- Aesthetic and artistic autonomy -- Metaphysics after Auschwitz -- Wellmer's postmetaphysical critique -- Suffering, hope, and societal evil -- Displaced object -- Heidegger and Adorno in reverse -- Existential authenticity -- Emphatic experience -- Public authentication -- Globalizing dialectic of enlightenment -- Habermas's paradigmatic critique -- Remembrance of nature -- Beyond globalization -- Autonomy reconfigured -- Feminist cultural politics -- The culture industry -- Culture, politics, and economy -- Ethical turns -- Adorno's politics -- Social ethics and global politics -- Resistance and transformation.