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Frankfurt School en · PROPN

Meanings

1. A school of social theory and philosophy associated in part with the Institute for Social Research at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Founded during the interwar period, the School consisted of dissidents who were critical of both capitalism and Soviet socialism.
   • As a post-1960's heir of the Frankfurt School's “critique of mass culture,” Mr. Enzensberger is most ruthless toward those products of what he calls the “consciousness industry” that, through the guise of satire or social criticism, co-opt rebellious impulses that might otherwise drive the masses to Marxist revolution. 1989 April 30, Martha Bayles, “Taking Sitcoms Seriously”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • I define critical theory as something broader than Critical Theory in the Frankfurt School usage but not unrelated to it. 2000, Carl Howard Freedman, Critical Theory and Science Fiction, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, page xvi:

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Frankfurtian

Translations (6)

pl szkoła frankfurcka (school of social theory and philosophy) · ru фра́нкфуртская шко́ла (school of social theory and philosophy) · hu frankfurti iskola (school of social theory and philosophy) · fr École de Francfort (school of social theory and philosophy) · es escuela de Fráncfort (school of social theory and philosophy) · de Frankfurter Schule (school of social theory and philosophy)