The Other Frankfurt School

The Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School

Erich Fromm, Feminism, and the Frankfurt School *

Erich Fromm is one of the few members of the Frankfurt School who seriously engaged himself with theorizing the problems of gender and the differences between men and women. In certain ways, Fromm anticipated later attempts to produce a feminist Marxism and poststructuralist analyses of the socially constructed nature of gender. Yet Fromm's gender analysis was highly uneven and even contradicto...

Critical Perspectives on Television from the Frankfurt School to Postmodernism

Paul Lazarsfeld (1942), one of the originators of modern communications studies, distinguished between what he called a "administrative research," that deployed empirical research for the goals of corporate and state institutions, and “critical research,” that he associated with the Frankfurt School. Critical research situates the media within the broader context of social life and interrogates...

Analysis of the Concept of Ethics in the School of Frankfurt

Background: The science of ethics is one of the most complete basic sciences that human beings urgently need, because the subject of knowledge of ethics is the human soul and its inner construction. The moral thinking of the thinkers of the Frankfurt School, as one of the ideas of the twentieth century, is based on the ethics of virtue; because the moral act is known as the act which is the res...

Frankfurt School Marxism and the Ethical Meaning of Art: Herbert Marcuse's The Aesthetic Dimension

This article takes up the ethical meaning of Herbert Marcuse’s aesthetics, especially as espoused in his last book, The Aesthetic Dimension (I 978). In it, Marcuse responds at both an ethical and aesthetic level to three versions of Marxist/Frankfurt school theory of art: realism, negation theory, and formalism. Thefirst part of m y article situates The Aesthetic Dimension in a tradition; the s...