Cultural Reader

Modern societies tell themselves a flattering story about speech. The story goes like this: if enough people talk, argue, exchange reasons, ...

The Old Masses and the New Elites In Dialectic of Enlightenment , Adorno and Horkheimer offered a blunt vision of culture under capitalism:...

In 1944, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer gave us a scathing diagnosis of modern media under capitalism: the “ culture industry .” For them...

In 1944, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer famously declared that culture had become an industry. Art, once a realm of critical reflection a...

Culture in the Age of Mass Production When Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer coined the term culture industry in the 1940s, they were nami...

The Rise of Instrumental Rationality At the heart of the Frankfurt School's critique of modernity lies a deceptively simple but devasta...

Enlightenment as Domination One of the most unsettling and profound arguments to emerge from the Frankfurt School is found in Adorno and Ho...

In 1937, Max Horkheimer published a seminal essay titled Traditional and Critical Theory , a text that would mark a profound turning point i...

The Frankfurt School was never a rigid institution nor a fixed doctrine; it was a constellation of personalities, each bringing distinctive ...

Max Horkheimer’s Eclipse of Reason , first published in 1947, is a defining text of the Frankfurt School and a cornerstone in the field of c...

The Frankfurt School, a group of scholars associated with the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany, emerged in the early 20th...