Filippo Menozzi is Reader in Postcolonial Studies at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Heritage of Critical Theory Expressionism in Postcolonial Times: Ernst Bloch and Magic Realism Race, Imperialism, and the Denial of History: Reading György Lukács History Inside Out: Walter Benjamin and the Postcolonial Combination Dialectic of Eurocentrism: Theodor W. Adorno and the Sediment of History Conclusion: Decolonising in Question BibliographyIndex

Finally, someone has done it: demonstrate that a postcolonialist impulse lies at the heart of critical theory and the Marxian tradition. Menozzi succeeds in showing how critical theory's commitment to reason and the rational origins of Western Marxism forged an anti-colonial and anti-racist position well before the bloated and misguided diatribes of the present. To those discourses that advocate anti-rationalism and a critique of progress and the Enlightenment, Menozzi provides us with a crucial corrective: that critical theory's defense of the critical power of reason was at the heart of an emancipatory critical project that has yet to be realized.

Filippo Menozzi is Reader in Postcolonial Studies at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Heritage of Critical Theory Expressionism in Postcolonial Times: Ernst Bloch and Magic Realism Race, Imperialism, and the Denial of History: Reading György Lukács History Inside Out: Walter Benjamin and the Postcolonial Combination Dialectic of Eurocentrism: Theodor W. Adorno and the Sediment of History Conclusion: Decolonising in Question BibliographyIndex

Finally, someone has done it: demonstrate that a postcolonialist impulse lies at the heart of critical theory and the Marxian tradition. Menozzi succeeds in showing how critical theory's commitment to reason and the rational origins of Western Marxism forged an anti-colonial and anti-racist position well before the bloated and misguided diatribes of the present. To those discourses that advocate anti-rationalism and a critique of progress and the Enlightenment, Menozzi provides us with a crucial corrective: that critical theory's defense of the critical power of reason was at the heart of an emancipatory critical project that has yet to be realized.

Filippo Menozzi is Reader in Postcolonial Studies at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Heritage of Critical Theory Expressionism in Postcolonial Times: Ernst Bloch and Magic Realism Race, Imperialism, and the Denial of History: Reading György Lukács History Inside Out: Walter Benjamin and the Postcolonial Combination Dialectic of Eurocentrism: Theodor W. Adorno and the Sediment of History Conclusion: Decolonising in Question BibliographyIndex

Finally, someone has done it: demonstrate that a postcolonialist impulse lies at the heart of critical theory and the Marxian tradition. Menozzi succeeds in showing how critical theory's commitment to reason and the rational origins of Western Marxism forged an anti-colonial and anti-racist position well before the bloated and misguided diatribes of the present. To those discourses that advocate anti-rationalism and a critique of progress and the Enlightenment, Menozzi provides us with a crucial corrective: that critical theory's defense of the critical power of reason was at the heart of an emancipatory critical project that has yet to be realized.