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“Critical Theory, Sociology, and Science-Fiction Films: Love, Radical Transformation and the Socio-Logic of Capital,” in Daniel Krier and Mark Worrell (eds.), Capital in the Mirror: Critical Theory and the Aesthetic Dimension (Albany, NY: SUNY Press; 2020): 231-301.

“Critical Theory Derailed: Paradigm Fetishism and Critical Liberalism in Honneth (and Habermas),” in Volker Schmitz (ed.), Axel Honneth and the Future of Critical Theory (Palgrave, 2018), pp. 207-242.

“Epilogue:  The Wider View” (with R. Scott Frey), in Ecologically Unequal Exchange: Environmental Injustice in Comparative and Historical Perspective, co-editor, with R. Scott Frey and Paul K. Gellert (Palgrave, 2018), pp. 307-316.

“Critical Theory, Radical Reform and Planetary Sociology: Between Impossibility and Inevitability”, in David A. Smith and Lauren Langman (eds.), Twenty-First Century Inequality & Capitalism: Piketty, Marx and Beyond (Leiden: Brill, 2018), pp. 152-168.

“Critical Theory as Radical Comparative-Historical Research”, in The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Theory, ied. by Michael J. Thompson (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp.165-84.

“Critical Theory, Brexit, and the Vicissitudes of Political Economy in the Twenty-First Century”, in William Outhwaite (ed.), Brexit: Sociological Responses (London: Anthem Press, 2017), pp. 183-192.

“Critical Theory in the Twenty-First Century:  The Logic of Capital between Classical Social Theory, the Early Frankfurt School Critique of Political Economy, and the Prospect of Artifice”, in Daniel Krier and Mark Worrell (eds.), The Social Ontology of Capitalism (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 47-74.

“Barriers and Conduits to Social Justice:  Universities in the Twenty-First Century” (with E. Lybeck), Social Justice and the University:  Globalization, Human Rights, and the Future of Democracy; ed. by Jon Shefner, Harry F. Dahms, Robert Jones and Asafa Jalata (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

“Decoding Modern Society:  The Matrix Trilogy and the Realm of Alienation,” in Cinematic Sociology. Social Life in Film (2nd ed.), ed. J.-A. Sutherland and K. Feltey (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2013), pp. 42-54.

“Joseph A. Schumpeter,” The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists, ed. George Ritzer & J. Stepnisky (Malden, MA: 2011), vol. 1: Chapter 14, pp. 448-468.

“Theodor W. Adorno,” The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists, ed. George Ritzer & J. Stepnisky (Malden, MA: 2011), vol. 1: Chapter 18, pp. 559-581.

“Democracy,” Globalization and Human Security. An Encyclopedia, Vol. I, ed. Ronaldo Munck and Honor Fagan (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2009), pp. 42-60.

“Modernity,” Globalization and Human Security. An Encyclopedia, Vol. II, ed. Ronaldo Munck and Honor Fagan (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2009), pp. 303-320.

“Retheorizing Global Space in Sociology: Towards a New Kind of Discipline,” The Spatial Turn. Interdisciplinary Perspectives, eds. Barney Warf & Santa Arias (London: Routledge, 2008), pp. 88-102.

“Does Alienation have a Future? Recapturing the Core of Critical Theory,” The Evolution of Alienation: Trauma, Promise, and the Millennium, ed. L. Langman and D.K. Fishman (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006), pp. 23-46.

“The Early Frankfurt School Critique of Capitalism: Critical Theory between Pollock’s ‘State Capitalism’ and the Critique of Instrumental Reason,” The Theory of Capitalism in the German Economic Tradition, ed. P. Koslowski (Berlin: Springer, 2000), pp. 309-61.