In the Twilight Zone
Terry Eagleton, 12 May 1994
The Frankfurt School
by Rolf Wiggershaus, translated by Michael Robertson.
Polity, 787 pp., £45, January 1994,0 7456 0534 6 Show More
by Rolf Wiggershaus, translated by Michael Robertson.
Polity, 787 pp., £45, January 1994,
“... to power, Horkheimer assembled around him a brilliant coterie of younger intellectuals, of whom Herbert Marcuse and Theodor Adorno were to become the most eminent. In 1934, the Institute, many of whose members were Jews, transplanted itself to the United States and, still under Horkheimer’s mandarin rule, set up home as an adjunct of Columbia ... ”