FRANKFURT SCHOOL OF CRITICAL THEORY
(INSTITUT FUR SOZIALFORSCHUNG)

SUB-PAGES

Philosophers / Theorists:

• Max Horkheimer (1895 - 1971)

• Herbert Marcuse (1898 - 1979)

• Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980) (see also Psychoanalysis)

• Leo Lowenthal (1900 - 1993)

• Theodor Adorno (1903 - 1969)

• Karl Otto Apel (1922 - ) (see also Hermeneutics and Pragmatism)

• Jurgen Habermas (1929 - ) (see also Hermeneutics and Pragmatism)

• Axel Honneth (1949 - )

• Peter Dews ( - )

See also:

• Georg Lukács (1885 - 1971)

• Walter Benjamin (1892 - 1940)

Topics:

• Marxist Critical Theory

ASSOCIATIONS

CONFERENCES

2007:

• Nostalgia for a Redeemed Future: Critical Theory, John Cabot University, Rome, April 27-29

• Phenomenology and Critical Theory, 25th Annual Symposium of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, Duquesne University, March 16-17

2006:

• Critical Theory: Fundamental Questions, School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, May 5

2005:

2004:

2003:

2002:

2001:

2000:

Annual:

COURSES

• Australian National University: Frankfurt School and Habermas (West)

• Cardiff University: Social Theory: the Frankfurt School (Edgar and Sedgwick)

• Central Florida University: Critical Political Theory (Gallagher)

• Michigan State University: Critical Theory

• University of Minnesota: The Frankfurt School and Beyond (Scheuerman)

• Monash University: Post-Marxist Critical Theory (Milner)

• University of Pennsylvania: Frankfurt School (Bowman)

• University of Sussex: The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory (Steuer)

JOURNALS

• Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Arato, Andrew, and Eike Gebhardt, eds.  The Essential Frankfurt School Reader.  New York: Continuum, 1982.

  • Bronner, Stephen Eric, and Douglas Kellner, eds.  Critical Theory and Society: a Reader.  London: Routledge, 1989.

  • Ingram, David, and Julia Simon-Ingram, eds.  Critical Theory: the Essential Readings.  Paragon, 1990.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Neumann, Franz.  Behemoth: the Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944.  Rev. ed. 1944.

  • Rose, Gillian. 

  • Wellmer, Albrecht.  Critical Theory of Society.  1971.

On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Kompridis, Nicolas, ed.  Rethinking Critical Theory: Habermas and Beyond.  International Journal of Philosophical Studies 13.3 (2005).  (available here)
  • O'Neill, John, ed.  On Critical Theory.  1976.

  • Rasmussen, David, ed.  Handbook of Critical Theory.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Benhabib, Seyla.  Critique, Norm, Utopia: a Study of the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory.  New York: Columbia UP, 1986.

  • Bottomore, Tom.  The Frankfurt School and its Critics.  London: Tavistock, 1984.

  • Brosio, Richard A.  The Frankfurt School: an Analysis of the Contradictictions and Crises of Liberal Capitalist Societies.  1980.
  • Buck-Morss, Susan.  The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and the Frankfurt Institute.  NY: Free Press, 1977.

  • Brosia, Richard A.  The Frankfurt School: an Analysis of the Contradictions and Crises of Liberal Capitalist Society.  Muncie, IND: Ball State UP, 1980.

  • Connerton, Paul.  The Tragedy of Enlightenment: an Essay on the Frankfurt School.  1980.

  • Dews, Peter.  Logics of Disintegration: Post-Structuralist Thought and the Claims of Critical Theory.  London: Verso, 1987.

  • Dubiel, H.  Theory and Politics: Studies in the Development of Critical Theory.  Trans. B. Gregg.  Cambridge: MIT Press, 1985.

  • Friedman, George.  The Political Philosophy of the Frankfurt School.  1981.

  • Geuss, Raymond.  The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School.  Cambridge: CUP, 1981.

  • Held, David.  Introduction to Critical Theory: Horkheimer to Habermas.  Berkekely: U of California P, 1981.

  • Jay, Martin.  Permanent Exiles: Essays on the Intellectual Migration from Germany to America.  New York: Columbia UP, 1986.

  • Jay, Martin.  Marxism and Totality: the Adventures of a Concept from Lukacs to Habermas.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1984.

  • Jay, Martin.  The Dialectical Imagination: a History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research 1923-1950.  Boston: Little, Brown, 1973.  Rpt. Berkeley: U of California P, 1996.

  • Kellner, Douglas.  Critical Theory, Marxism, and Modernity.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1989.

  • Pensky, Max.  "Third Generation Critical Theory."  A Companion to Continental Philosophy.  Ed. Simon Critchley and William R. Schroeder.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.  407-416.
  • Poster, Mark.  Critical Theory and Poststructuralism: In Search of a Context.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1989.

  • Schirmacher, Wolfgang.  German 20th Century Philosophy: the Frankfurt School.  London: Continuum, .

  • Schroeder, William.  "Marx and Western Marxism."  Continental Philosophy: a Critical Approach.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.  60-92.

  • Sedgwick, Peter.  "The Frankfurt School: Horkheimer and Adorno."  Descartes to Derrida: an Introduction to European Philosophy.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.  78-95.

  • Sherman, David.  "Critical Theory."  The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy.  Ed. Robert Solomon and David L. Sherman.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.  188-218.

  • Snedeker, .  The Politics of Critical Theory: Language / Discourse / Society.  Lanham, MD: UP of America, 2004.

  • Tar, Zoltan.  The Frankfurt School: the Critical Theories of Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno.  1977.

  • Wiggerhaus, Rolf.  The Frankfurt School: its History, Theories, and Political Significance.  Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1994.

On-Line:

• Bohman, James: Critical Theory (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Bowman, Curtis: Odysseus and the Siren Call of Reason: the Frankfurt School Critique of Enlightenment Other Voices 1.1 (1997)

• Friedeburg, Ludwig V.: History of Institute of Social Research, Frankfurt-Main

• Pecora, Vincent P.: Frankfurt School (Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism)

• Wiggershaus, Rolf: The Frankfurt School: its History, Theories, and Political Significance

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia:

  • Critical Theory (Frankfurt School)

  • Frankfurt School

UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROJECTS

Europe:

• Germany: Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt am Main: Institut für Sozialforschung (Institute for Social Research)

WWW GATEWAYS

• Case Western Reserve University: The Frankfurt School
• Deramaix, P.: Dialectiques: Site Consacré de l'École de Francfort et à la Théorie Critique
• Janz, Bruce: Critical Theory Resources
• Jensen, Walter A.:  Application of the Critical Theory
• Kellner, Douglas: Illuminations: the Critical Theory Website

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