This book of tightly woven dialogues engages prominent thinkers in a discussion about the role of culture‎-broadly construed‎-in contemporary society and politics‎.‎ Faced with the conceptual inflation of the notion of ‎'‎culture‎,‎‎'‎ which now imposes itself as an indispensable issue in contemporary moral and political debates‎,‎ these dynamic exchanges seek to rethink culture and critique beyond the schematic models that have often predominated‎,‎ such as the opposition between "mainstream multiculturalism" and the "clash of civilizations‎.‎" Prefaced by an introduction relating current cultural debates to the critical theory tradition‎,‎ this book examines the politics of culture and the spirit of critique from three different vantage points‎.‎ To begin‎,‎ Gabriel Rockhill and Alfredo Gomez‎-Muller provide a stage‎-setting dialogue‎,‎ followed by discussions with two major representatives of contemporary critical theory‎:‎ Seyla Benhabib and Nancy Fraser‎.‎ Working at the horizons of this tradition‎,‎ Judith Butler‎,‎ Immanuel Wallerstein‎,‎ and Cornel West then provide important critical perspectives on cultural politics‎.‎ The book‎'‎s concluding section engages with Michael Sandel and Will Kymlicka‎,‎ who work out of the Rawlsian tradition yet are uniquely concerned with the issue of culture‎,‎ broadly understood‎.‎ The epilogue‎,‎ an interview with Axel Honneth‎,‎ returns to the core issue of critical theory in cultural politics‎.‎ Ranging from recent developments and progressive interventions in critical theory to dialogues that incorporate its insights into larger discussions of social and political philosophy‎,‎ this book sharpens old critical tools while developing new strategies for rethinking the role of ‎'‎culture‎'‎ in contemporary society‎.‎