Frankfurt School Ideas

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The Frankfurt School was a school of neo-Marxist interdisciplinary social theory, associated in part with the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt am Main.

Major works:

Reason and Revolution
The Work of Art in the
Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Eclipse of Reason
Escape from Freedom
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Minima Moralia
Eros and Civilization
One-Dimensional Man
Negative Dialectics
The Structural Transformation
of the Public Sphere
The Theory of Communicative Action

Important concepts:

Critical theory • Dialectic • Praxis
Psychoanalysis • Antipositivism
Popular culture • Culture industry
Advanced capitalism
Privatism • Non-identity
Communicative rationality
Legitimation crisis

Notable theorists:

Max Horkheimer
Theodor Adorno
Herbert Marcuse
Walter Benjamin
Erich Fromm
Friedrich Pollock
Leo Löwenthal
Jürgen Habermas