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This is the definitive study of the history and accomplishments of the Frankfurt School. It offers elegantly written portraits of the major figures in the school's history as well as overviews of the various positions and directions they developed from the founding years just after World War I until the death of Theodor Adorno in 1969.The book is based on documentary and biographical materials that have only recently become available. As the narrative follows the Institute for Social Research from Frankfurt am Main to Geneva, New York, and Los Angeles, and then back to Frankfurt, Wiggershaus continually ties the evolution of the school to the changing intellectual and political contexts in which it operated. He also interweaves these accounts with incisive summaries of substantive works by Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, Fromm, Kirchheimer, Lowenthal, Marcuse, Neumann, Pollock, and Habermas.The book is self-contained and can serve as a general introduction to critical theory, but it
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- Author
- Rolf Wiggershaus; Michael Robertson; NetLibrary, Inc
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 1995
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262731133
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Philosophy
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
Other editions & translations
- The Frankfurt School: Its History, Theories, And Political Significance (studies In Contemporary German Social Thought) (1994)
- Die Frankfurter Schule : Geschichte, theoretische Entwicklung, politische Bedeutung (1989)
- The Frankfurt School Its History,Theories and Political Significance,Rolf Wiggershaus (1994)
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