The Essential Frankfurt School Reader - Softcover

"This anthology...reprints important writings that are not readily available in English...and covers a wider range of contributors than Americans usually associate with the Frankfurt School....This collection will not only deepen American interest in critical theory but reveal many of its unsuspected facets. It goes without saying...that the work of the Frankfurt School is absolutely indispensable to an understanding of neocapitalist society, its culture, and its impact on personality.'" Christopher Lasch "Arato and Gebhardt have done a magnificent job of collecting the works that matter and of providing introductory material that explains their significance and places them in a historical context. Likely the most complete introduction to these thinkers and their influence on modern critical theory." -"Frontwheeldrive.com, "July 6, 2006

The Frankfurt School of philosophers, aestheticians, sociologists, and political scientists (including Theodore W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse) represents one of the most interesting and unique intellectual events of the twentieth century. Editors Arato and Gebhardt offer major introductions to the three sections that comprise the Reader, in which they seek to place to historical development of the School's thought and to deonstrate its complexity, while investigating its influence on various disciplines. Paul Piccone has written the General Introduction.>