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The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory expounds the development of critical theory from its founding thinkers to its contemporary formulations in an interdisciplinary setting. It maps the terrain of a critical social theory, expounding its distinctive character vis-a-vis alternative theoretical perspectives, exploring its theoretical foundations and developments, conceptualising its subject matters both past and present, and signalling its possible future in a time of great uncertainty. Taking a distinctively theoretical, interdisciplinary, international and contemporary perspective on the topic, this wide-ranging collection of chapters is arranged thematically over three volumes: Volume I: Key Texts and Contributions to a Critical Theory of Society Volume II: Themes Volume III: Contexts This Handbook is essential reading for scholars and students in the field, showcasing the scholarly rigor, intellectual acuteness and negative force of critical social theory, past and present.
The Frankfurt School and Fascism
The Frankfurt School and Fascism
On 9 May 1945, one day after VE Day, Theodor W. Adorno, who was in Los Angeles, wrote to Max Horkheimer, who was in New York. ‘I feel the need’, he explained,
to send you a few lines today, even though I have no ‘pragmatic’ reason to do so, simply because it is a pity that we have not experienced the demise of the Nazis together. Hitler’s regime has, after all, been the immediate cause of all the external developments in our lives for the last twelve years, and the expectation that things might change has been one of the decisive forces that have kept us alive. Conversely, the fact that ...
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