The Frankfurt School
its history, theories, and political significance
by Rolf Wiggershaus
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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 also has a wealth of new material to offer those who are familiar with this tradition but would like to learn more about its history and context.
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The Frankfurt School: Its History, Theories, and Political Significance (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
February 23, 1995, The MIT Press
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The Frankfurt School: its history, theories, and political significance
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Die Frankfurter Schule. Geschichte. Theoretische Entwicklung. Politische Bedeutung
Feb 24, 1993, München: dtv 1993. (dtv Wissenschaft)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [715]-771) and index.
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»Frankfurter Schule« - das ist das üblich gewordene Etikett für eine der bedeutendsten philosophischen und gesellschaftstheoretischen Richtungen des 20. Jahrhunderts und den erstaunlichen, vielleichteinzigartigen Arbeits- und Wirkungszusammenhang so herausragender linker Intellektueller wie Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, Macuse, Fromm, Habermas, Neumann, Kirchheimer u.a. Ihre Namen stehen für ein Jahrzehnte währendes und auch heute noch fortwirkendes Reflektieren über die Pathologien der Moderne, für den kämpferischen Anspruch auf eine mündige und aufgeklärte, eine bessere Welt.
Diese erste Gesamtdarstellung der Frankfurter Schule, gerühmt als ein Standardwerk zum Thema und ein Meisterstück der Wissenschaftsgeschichtsschreibung, folgt der »unwahrscheinlichen« Geschichte dieser Intelektuellen-Gruppierung.
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