Beschrijving
traces the genesis of the Institute and its philosophy: its founding in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1923 by a group of unaffiliated Marxist intellectuals seeking to revive the original impetus of Marx’s ideas; their combining of Hegelianized Marxism with psychoanalytic theory to produce the pioneering philosophical position known as Critical Theory; and their central role in the migration of Weimar culture to America after Hitler’s rise to power
