[FRA:] critical theory today?

[Ralph Dumain]

Review of Critical Theory After Habermas: Encounters and Departures. 
Edited by Dieter Freundlieb. Wayne Hudson and John Rundell
Deborah Cook 183-187

Review of Contemporary Perspectives in Critical and Social 
Philosophy. Edited by John Rundell, Danielle Petherbridge, Jan 
Bryant, John Hewitt and Jeremy Smith
Jonathan Joseph 187-191

Review of The Intellectual by Steve Fuller
Wendy Olsen

Journal of Critical Realism, Vol 5, No 1 April 2006

http://equinoxjournals.com/ojs/index.php/JCR/article/view/1437/907

The first two books pertain to critical theory. A lot of elaborate 
philosophizing here, but am I alone in deeming most of this stuff 
sterile metaphysics?