Frankfurt School

The Frankfurt School [Frankfurter Schule] was a school of neo-Marxist interdisciplinary social theory, associated in part with the Institute for Social Research at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.

Protagonists

Theorists

Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Friedrich Pollock, Erich Fromm, Otto Kirchheimer, Leo Löwenthal, Franz Leopold Neumann, Siegfried Kracauer, Alfred Sohn-Rethel, Walter Benjamin, Jürgen Habermas, Claus Offe, Axel Honneth, Oskar Negt, Alfred Schmidt, Albrecht Wellmer.

Crtitics of Frankfurt school

Christopher Lasch, Georg Lukács, Karl Popper, Nikolas Kompridis

Historization and analysis

• Susan Buck-Morss, The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and the Frankfurt Institute, New York: Free Press, 1977; London: Harvester Press, 1978; 2002.
  • Origen de la dialéctica negativa, trans. Nora Rabotnikof Maskivker, Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1981. (Spanish)
• Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History, Theories and Political Significance, MIT Press, 1995, 787 pp.
• Jeffrey T. Nealon, Caren Irr (eds.), Rethinking the Frankfurt School: Alternative Legacies of Cultural Critique, SUNY Press, 2002, 227 pp.
• Thomas Wheatland, The Frankfurt School in Exile, University of Minnesota Press, 2009, 415 pp.
• Stuart Jeffries, The Frankfurt School: A Timeline, Verso, 20 Sep 2016.

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School