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The Frankfurt School : Its History, Theories, title: and Political Significance Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought author: Wiggershaus, Rolf.; Robertson, Michael. publisher: MIT Press isbn10 | asin: 0262731134 print isbn13: 9780262731133 ebook isbn13: 9780585278612 language: English Frankfurt school of sociology, Critical subject theory, Marxian school of sociology. publication date: 1995 lcc: HM24.W48613 1995eb ddc: 301/.01 Frankfurt school of sociology, Critical subject: theory, Marxian school of sociology. Page iii The Frankfurt School Its History, Theories, and Political Significance Rolf Wiggershaus Translated by Michael Robertson Third printing, 1998 First MIT Press paperback edition, 1995 English translation © 1994 Polity Press and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology First published in Germany as Die Frankfurter Schule, © 1986 Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. This book was printed and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wiggershaus, Rolf, 1944- [Frankfurter Schule. English] The Frankfurt School: its history, theories, and political significance/Rolf Wiggershaus; translated by Michael Robertson. p. cm.(Studies in contemporary German social thought) Includes bibliographical references (p. ). ISBN 0-262-23174-3 (hb), 0-262-73113-4 (pb) 1. Frankfurt school of sociology. 2. Critical theory. 3. Marxian school of sociology. I. Title. II. Series. HM24.W4861 1994 301.01dc20 93-14039 CIP Page v Contents Acknowledgements viii Translator's Acknowledgements x Introduction 1 1 9 Dawn Felix Weil, Son of a Millionaire, Founds an Institute for 9 Marxism, Hoping One Day to Hand it Over to a Victorious German Soviet State The Professorial Marxist, Carl Grünberg, Establishes an 24 Institute for Research on the History of Socialism and the Labour Movement The Philosopher Max Horkheimer Becomes Director of 36 the Institute. The New Programme: Overcoming the Crisis of Marxism by Fusing Social Philosophy and Empirical Social Science Horkheimer and His Assistants: A Biographical 41 Panorama Max Horkheimer 41 Erich Fromm 52 Friedrich Pollock 60 Leo Lowenthal 64 Theodor Wiesengrund-Adorno 66 Herbert Marcuse 95 PoliticsAcademic PoliticsAcademic Work 105 2 127 Flight 3 149 In the New World I: An Independent Institute of Critical Social Research Studies on Authority and the Family: A Fragment of a 149 Collective `Work in Progress' Renewal of Collaboration Between Horkheimer and 156 Adorno Other Empirical Research Projects at the Institute 165 During the 1930s The Dialectics Project 177 Walter Benjamin, the Passagen-Werk, the Institute and 191 Adorno Critics of Ideology: Herbert Marcuse and Leo 218 Lowenthal on Art Franz Neumann and Otto Kirchheimer: Unexploited 223 Opportunities for Intensive Interdisciplinary Research Adorno, Lazarsfeld and the Princeton Radio Research 236 Project Balancing Acts and Indecision 246 Page vi 4 261 In the New World II: Productive Decay `Running an Institute is by No Means Required by the 261 Foundation's Statutes' Break with Erich Fromm 265 Projects 273 Disputes on the Theory of National Socialism 280 A Branch of Private Scholars in Los Angeles and a 291 Rump of the Institute in New York; Parting with Neumann and Marcuse Work on the Dialectics Project 302 Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments 326 Horkheimer's `Dialectic of Enlightenment': Eclipse of 344 Reason The anti-Semitism Project 350 5 381 Gradual Return Ambitions for the anti-Semitism ProjectYearning for 381 Philosophical WorkNo Urge to Build a Community of TheoristsVisits to a Colony Studies in Prejudice 408 6 431 Critical Ornament of a Restoration Society Taking Part in Post-War ReconstructionResearch on 431 Political Awareness Among West Germans HorkheimerEstablished Overnight 442 Adorno's Vision of Critical Empirical Social 450 ResearchCrisis at the InstituteMarcuse's Dream Stabilization at the InstituteIts First Publications After 466 the Return to Frankfurt: Sociologica, Group Experiment Farewell to Independence: Research in Mannesmann 479 FactoriesWithdrawal of Adorno from Empirical Research Marcuse's `Dialectic of Enlightenment': Eros and 496 Civilization 7 508 Critical Theory in Contention Adorno as an Independent Interdisciplinary 508 ResearcherTowards a Musique Informelle and Corresponding Approaches in Other Fields Notes to Literature 519 Towards a Philosophy Unafraid of Lacking Foundations530 Jürgen Habermasa Social Theorist at the Institute at 537 Last, Valued by Adorno But Seen by Horkheimer as Too Left-Wing The Positivist Dispute 566 The Conservatism Dispute 582 Critique of Heidegger 592 8 597 Critical Theory in a Period of Upheaval Adorno's Continuation of Dialectic of Enlightenment: 597 Negative Dialectics The Critical Theorists and the Student Movement 609 Habermas on Course Towards a Communication 636 Theory of SocietyAdorno's Legacy: Aesthetic Theory Page vii Afterword 656 Notes 660 Bibliography 715 Abbreviations 715 I Archives 715 II Publications of the Institute, of the Institute's most 720 Important Associates, and of the Major Representatives of the Frankfurt School III Secondary Sources 753 IV Works on the Context and Works Forming Part of 759 the Context Index 772
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