 | Foundations of the Frankfurt School of Social Research This interdisciplinary volume provides the most comprehensive evaluation, to date, of the merits and problems of Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School. Outstanding repersentatives of several academic disciplines assess from opposite intellectual and political positions the achievements and shortcomings of the social theory that emerged from this school of thought. The volume also includes several newly translated but previously inaccessible essays by leading critical theorists such as Georg Lukács and Jürgen Habermas. Judith Marcus is visiting assistant professor of sociology, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, the New School for Social Research. She is the author of Thomas Mann und Georg Lukács., Zoltán Tar was visiting Fulbright Scholar to Budapest, Hungary, and has taught sociology at the City College of CUNY, New School for Social Research, and University of Illinois. He is author of The Frankfurt School: The Critical Theories of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno. |
