How effectively can the Frankfurt School’s constellate new insights for contemporary emancipation, or how do we futurise Critical Theory with new radical Freudo–Marxian analysis of authoritarian ...

Critical theory has in recent years become a major bone of contention in American culture. The term has taken on a life ... from an early figure such as Theodor Adorno to later figures such as Gail ...

Few 20th-century thinkers have cultivated a reputation for pessimism like that of Theodor Adorno ... commodified culture; he was critical of all of the products of the culture industry.

A conversation with Peter Gordon about the enduring influence of the Frankfurt School's leader, the future of critical theory, and his recent book, A Precarious Happiness. Theodor Adorno giving a ...

One of the more reliable chemical reactions in European culture occurs when particles ... were following in a distinguished tradition. Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, Ernst ...

Marxism turned from class war to culture war in the 1920s ... sciences and called it “Critical Theory.” We call it “the Frankfurt School”: Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer ...

At once prestigious and contentious, prized and reviled, theory was a way of amassing cultural capital for oneself as well ... Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, doyens of the Frankfurt School, were ...

Frankfurt School theorist Theodor Adorno photographed in 1964 ... Now Frankfurt School critical theory is commonly studied in sociology, cultural studies, philosophy, and intellectual history ...

It is, however, hard to overcome the apparent aloofness of Frankfurt School thinkers from our times and from popular culture in general. Its famous first generation (which included Theodor ... Adorno ...

Adorno is easily parodied ... and some fragments from Dialectic of Enlightenment on the ‘culture industry’; a few unfortunates will have had to tackle the thickets of Aesthetic Theory or Negative ...