The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School (Routledge Philosophy Companions)

The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School (Routledge Philosophy Companions)

The portentous terms and phrases associated with the first decades of the Frankfurt School – exile, the dominance of capitalism, fascism – seem as salient today as they were in the early twentieth century. The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School addresses the many early concerns of critical theory and brings those concerns into direct engagement with our shared world today. In this volume, a distinguished group of international scholars from a variety of disciplines revisits the philosophical and political contributions of Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, Jürgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, and others. Throughout, the Companion ’s focus is on the major ideas that have made the Frankfurt School such a consequential and enduring movement. It offers a crucial resource for those who are trying to make sense of the global and cultural crisis that has now seized our contemporary world. "The continuing vitality and relevance of the ‘Frankfurt School’ critical theory tradition, in its original form and now several generations later, is one of the most significant episodes in modern intellectual history. This superb, impressively comprehensive collection is a powerful demonstration of that vitality and relevance, and, in the explosion of interest in readers and companions over the last thirty years, it must count as one of the very few that are simply indispensable." Robert B. Pippin, The University of Chicago, USA Peter E. Gordon is the Amabel B. James Professor of History, Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University. Espen Hammer is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. Axel Honneth is the Jack C. Weinstein Professor for the Humanities in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University and the Director of the Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt am Main.