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Frankfurt School - a group of researchers associated with the Institut für Sozialforschung (Institute of Social Research), founded in 1923 as an autonomous division of the Univ. of Frankfurt. The institute's first director, Carl Grünberg, set it up as a center for research in philosophy and the social sciences from a Marxist perspective. After Max Horkheimer took over as director


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    The Frankfurt School and Its Critics » Read Now

    by Tom Bottomore. 93 pgs.

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    The Institute of Social Research, from which the Frankfurt School developed, was founded in the early years of the Weimar Republic. It survived the Nazi era in exile, to become an important centre of social theory in the postwar era. Early members of the school, such as Adorno, Horkheimer and...
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    The Frankfurt School on Religion: Key Writings by the Major Thinkers » Read Now

    by Eduardo Mendieta. 405 pgs.

    Introduction1. Ernst BlochOn the Original History of the Third ReichNot Hades, but Heaven on EarthHunger, "Something in a Dream"God of Hope, Thing-For-UsMarx and the End of Alienation2. Erich FrommThe Dogma of Christ3. Leo LöwenthalThe Demonic: Project for a Negative Philosophy of Religion4. Herbert...
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    Critical Theory and Political Possibilities: Conceptions of Emancipatory Politics in the Works of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Habermas » Read Now

    by Joan Alway. 174 pgs.

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    Alway identifies and assesses new models of emancipatory politics in the Frankfurt Schools Critical Theory. She outlines the complexities of Critical Theory, and clarifies the logical connections between assumptions that inform the critical theorists' analyses of social conditions and their views on...
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    An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture (Chap. 2 "The Frankfurt School and the Culture Industry") » Read Now

    by Dominic Strinati. 286 pgs.

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    An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture is widely recognized as an immensely useful textbook for students taking courses in the major theories of popular culture. Strinati provides a critical assessment of the ways in which these theories have tried to understand and evaluate popular culture...
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    Culture and Critique: An Introduction to the Critical Discourses of Cultural Studies (Chap. 5 "The Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School") » Read Now

    by Jere Paul Surber. 294 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    "From culture to critique, Kant to Gadamer, Marx to Bourdieu, this detailed & brilliantly argued account of the history, theory, & practice of cultural studies is the best introduction to the subject that we have." Eric Gould University of Denver "An excellent pathway through a diverse field.... The...
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    Prismatic Thought: Theodor W. Adorno » Read Now

    by Peter Uwe Hohendahl. 294 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    A leading figure in the Frankfurt School of philosophers from the 1930s through the time of his death in 1969, Adorno was the author of influential philosophical and sociological works on issues ranging from aesthetics, music history, and mass culture to politics, modern technology, and the Western...
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    Jurgen Habermas » Read Now

    by Michael Pusey. 128 pgs.

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    A lucid and authoritative introduction to the work of Habermas. His sometimes difficult and inaccessible work is rendered accessible by Michael Pusey for the student reader.
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    Adorno on Popular Culture » Read Now

    by Robert W. Witkin. 200 pgs.

    Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
    Robert W. Witkin unpacks Adorno's notoriously difficult critique of popular culture in an engaging and accessible style, looking first at the development of the overarching theories of authority, commodification and negative dialectics. He then goes on to consider Adorno's writing on specific...
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