In the simplest of terms, Marx used his interpretation of Hegel's dialectic to explain how this will happen. This reworking of Hegel's notions of man in history is called Historical Materialism . All the analysis presented by the Frankfurt school assumes Historical Materialism is a valid process. As we mentioned in the introduction, the political occurences of the day also influenced each thinkers critique. The following time-line will give you and idea of the political events each thinker was observing when composing a given work.
Reason comprises conception, judgment, reasoning, and the intuitional faculty.
Specifically, it is the intuitional faculty, or the faculty of first truths, as distinguished from the understanding, which is called the discursive or ratiocinative faculty. Hermeneutics - The science of interpretation and explanation. Alienation - The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated. Idealism -The system or theory that denies the existence of material bodies, and teaches that we have no rational grounds to believe in the reality of anything but ideas and their relations.