Research topic: Frankfurt School

Frankfurt School a group of researchers associated with the Institut für Sozialforschung (Institute of Social Research), founded in 1923 as an autonomous division of the Univ. of Frankfurt. The institute's first director, Carl Grünberg, set it up as a center for research in philosophy and the social sciences from a Marxist perspective. After Max Horkheimer took over as director in 1930, the focus widened. Leading members, such as Theodor Adorno , Walter Benjamin , and Herbert Marcuse , influenced by aspects of psychoanalysis and existentialism, developed a version of Marxism... Read more