Frankfurt School
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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.
