It only became the birthplace for what we now call “critical theory” in the early 1930s, when Max Horkheimer assumed the directorship, but it remained a collective of intellectuals ...

as well as Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, via their pioneering work at Frankfurt’s Institute for Social Research, “the Frankfurt School”. He never won the professorship he wanted and ...

Known as the Frankfurt School, it was founded in 1923 and Guardian columnist Stuart Jeffries charts the history of this influential movement by intertwining the biographies of leading social and ...

In 1513, the famed Florentine Renaissance writer Niccolo Machiavelli wrote to his friend Francesco Vettori that at the close of day he would “enter the courts of ancient men, where, received by them ...

what Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno (two of the most thoughtful Marxists of the 20 th century) called a ‘central injustice’, above all in the Holocaust. Robert argued that there was a whole other ...

Many important names are associated with the School: "The School included among its members the 1960s guru of the New Left Herbert Marcuse, Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, the popular writer Erich ...

Karin Stögner is Professor of Sociology at the University of Passau, Germany and co-ordinator of the Research Network on Racism and Antisemitism in the European Sociological Association. In this ...

A conversation with Peter Gordon about the enduring influence of the Frankfurt School's leader, the future of critical theory, and his recent book, A Precarious Happiness. Theodor Adorno giving a ...

One of those candidates is Max England, who is offering Lord Sugar "the opportunity to get involved in one of - if not the - most exciting, most investable areas out there are the moment".