Frankfurt School

Section: Political Books

Number of pages: 1343 pages

The Frankfurt School is one of the most important philosophical and social schools of thought of the twentieth century. This book outlines the history of the school from the founding of the Institute for Social Research during the Weimar Republic, which after 1930 became a center of leftist thought, through the exile of its members (first to Geneva and later to New York) after the Nazis came to power, their return to Germany after the war, and up to the early 1970s.

The book combines critically reconstructed biographies, the history of the institute, the development of theory, and presents the scientific environment and the social and political backgrounds.