A conversation with the German theorist about the history of Western philosophy and more.

Authors discussed may include Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Althusser, Habermas, Foucault, and more recent thinkers. Meets the Critical Learning: SHB requirement. (Not offered 2025-26). Prerequisite: ...

Peter Gordon’s Adorno.Few scholars have done more in recent decades to preserve the legacy of Theodor Adorno than Peter Gordon. An intellectual historian at Harvard, Gordon first rose to prominence in ...

Jürgen Habermas was born in Düsseldorf in 1929, obtained his doctorate in Bonn in 1954 and soon afterwards became an assistant to Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno at the Franfurt Institute ...

Intellectuals and political dissidents associated with the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research (founded in 1923) — including Max Horkheimer (from 1930 its director, who relocated it to the US ...

Indeed, high profile intellectuals, like Jürgen Habermas and Ulrich Beck, have already sounded the alarm on Europe’s post-democratic, if not outright authoritarian, mutation, highlighting the ...

Consensus was not a value dear to it. But once the hyper-activist turn of the revolt had passed, or was crushed, and the legacy of Adorno and Horkheimer had been put through the blender of Habermas’s ...

In contrast, German Jewish philosophers Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, the founders of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory who fled the Nazis to the US in the 1930s, became Zionist cold ...

In a statement made in November 2023, Jurgen Habermas made a statement in continued support of Israel’s right to exist, further stating that Israel’s attack on Palestine over the past months has ...