Frankfurt School

A school of critical social theory and philosophy associated with the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany. It combined Marxist theory (including notions of false consciousness) with Freudian psychoanalysis to produce critical theory, and its members were influential on later intellectual movements and treated collectively in leftist discourse.

Claims that use this term

• Hall rejected the Frankfurt School because of its Hegelian heritage
• Marxist theories of false consciousness merged with Freudian psychoanalysis in the Frankfurt School.
• Frankfurt School theory repudiates renunciation and takes happiness promises literally.
• The 1968 student movement regarded the Frankfurt School elders as traitors to the revolution
• Postwar New Leftists rediscovered the Frankfurt School through pirated and reissued pre-1950 writings
• Frankfurt School internal disputes shared a common vocabulary and assumptions