Cultural Reader

Few twentieth-century thinkers absorbed and transformed the legacy of the Frankfurt School as profoundly as Fredric Jameson . While his nam...

There are thinkers whose power lies not in the systems they build but in the fragments they leave behind. Walter Benjamin is one of them. Ph...

“Technology, as a mode of production, as the totality of instruments, devices, and contrivances which characterize the machine age, is at th...

Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979) was a philosopher who became, almost accidentally, a revolutionary celebrity. A member of the Frankfurt School ...

By the time Jürgen Habermas emerged as the leading figure of the second generation of the Frankfurt School, critical theory was at a philos...

Herbert Marcuse , a philosopher trained in both Hegelian dialectics and Freudian psychoanalysis, emerged in the 1960s as the Frankfurt Schoo...

For Theodor Adorno, art was not merely a form of expression or beauty. It was something far more radical: a fragile enclave of freedom in a ...

The Philosopher of the Wound Theodor Adorno was perhaps the most philosophically rigorous and emotionally severe thinker in the Frankfurt ...

Walter Benjamin was not only a philosopher of history and memory ; he was also one of the twentieth century’s most subtle thinkers on aesth...

Walter Benjamin  remains a singular figure in the constellation of the Frankfurt School. Though never a formal member of the Institute for S...

One of the most disturbing questions to emerge from the twentieth century—and one that haunted the thinkers of the Frankfurt School—was this...

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