Included in this selection are papers writter from a Critical Theory perspective over a period of 40 years, beginning in the mid 1960s. The earliest writings had no theoretical context in which to be situated. It is only looking back over this extended period of time that it is possible to see the thread of what was later to become a conscious move towards the theories originating in Frankfurt in the 1930s and developed further in the works of Laing, Marcuse, Fromm, etc. in the 1960s. These theories became part of what came to be known as the Counterculture and helped to shape the beliefs and ideologies of a whole generation of that reached maturity in the 1960s and 1970s. This generation (of which I was a part) was exposed to the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, the Vietnam War, the Paris Student Revolt of 1968, the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert and John Kennedy. We experienced the horrors of live coverage of poliice brutality at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968, the Woodstock Festival, the murders of Black Panther leaders through the auspices of Cointelpro (the FBI/CIA Counter Intelligence Unit set up to prevent political activism and to forstall social change), the Attica Prison Riots and the assassination of George Jackson. Seminal works of this period included Ken Keysey's One Flew Over the Cookoos Nest, Laing's The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise and The Divided Self. All of these were, to a greater or lesser extent, part of the philosophical tide that swept the intellectual world and transformed it forever. It was a time of remarkable excitement and profound disappointment. It began with great expectations. It gave rise, eventually, to the works of Foucult, Derrida and Lyotard, and so can be said to have led to the development of Postmodernism.