The Frankfurt School
Contributors: Michael Robertson (Translator)
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: November 1993
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 700
ISBN-13: 9780745605340
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; Sociology, Social Studies; Germany; Critical theory; Frankfurt school of sociology; Marxian school of sociology
First sentence: 'Frankfurt School' and 'Critical Theory': if the terms evoke more than just the idea of a particular paradigm in social science, they will trigger memories of a string of names - starting with Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse and Habermas - and associations with the student movement of the 1960s, the 'positivist dispute', the critique of culture - and perhaps also German emigres, the Third Reich, Jews, the Weimar Republic, Marxism and psychoanalysis.