Frankfurt School (of social theory)
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Frankfurt School — This article is about the philosophical school. For the business school, see Frankfurt School of Finance Management. Part of a series on the … Wikipedia
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Frankfurt school — Group of thinkers associated with the Institut für Sozialforschung (Institute for Social Research), founded in Frankfurt in 1923 by Felix J. Weil, Carl Grünberg, Max Horkheimer, and Friedrich Pollock. Other important members of the school are… … Universalium
Frankfurt school — The critical Marxist school emerging in Frankfurt in the 1920s and 1930s, and centred upon the Institute for Social Research, founded in 1923. Its principal philosophical members were Max Horkheimer (director, 1931–58), Adorno, Marcuse and… … Philosophy dictionary
Frankfurt (disambiguation) — The name Frankfurt is associated with:Places in Germany Frankfurt am MainThe city of Frankfurt or Frankfurt am Main, called Frankfurt on the Main in English. It is located on the Main River close to the Rhine and the following institutions that… … Wikipedia
College for Advanced Studies in Social Theory — The College for Advanced Studies in Social Theory (Hungarian: Társadalomelméleti Kollégium, TEK) is the second oldest college of its type at the Corvinus University of Budapest as well as in Hungary. Contents 1 History 1.1 1981–present 2 … Wikipedia
Social criticism — analyzes social structures which are seen as flawed and aims at practical solutions by specific measures, radical reform or even revolutionary change.AboutThe starting points of social criticism can be very different and the different forms of… … Wikipedia
Critical theory — Horkheimer, Adorno, Habermas David Rasmussen HEGEL, MARX AND THE IDEA OF A CRITICAL THEORY Critical theory1 is a metaphor for a certain kind of theoretical orientation which owes its origin to Hegel and Marx, its systematization to Horkheimer and … History of philosophy
critical theory — In sociology, critical theory is most closely associated with the Frankfurt School of Social Research, although its origins can be traced back through Hegelianism and Western Marxism generally. The term now describes a very diverse strand of… … Dictionary of sociology
Critical social work — is the application of social work from a critical theory perspective. Critical social work seeks to address social injustices, as opposed to focusing on individual people s problems. Critical theories explain social problems as arising from… … Wikipedia
