Frankfurt School

English Proper noun Frankfurt School 1 A school of social theory and philosophy associated in part with the University of Frankfurt Institute for Social Research Institute for Social Research at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Founded during the interwar period, the School consisted of dissidents who were critical of both capitalism and Soviet socialism. en-US w:Martha Bayles Taking Sitcoms Seriously The New York Times 1989-04-30 https://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/30/books/paperbacks-taking-sitcoms-seriously.html 0362-4331 As a post-1960's heir of the Frankfurt Schools “critique of mass culture,” Mr. Enzensberger is most ruthless toward those products of what he calls the “consciousness industry” that, through the guise of satire or social criticism, co-opt rebellious impulses that might otherwise drive the masses to Marxist revolution. https://web.archive.org/web/20231214120618/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/30/books/paperbacks-taking-sitcoms-seriously.html 14 December 2023 en w:Carl Howard Freedman Critical Theory and Science Fiction 2000 Wesleyan University Press xvi https://archive.org/details/criticaltheorysc0000free/page/n17/mode/1up 978-0-8195-6398-9 I define critical theory as something broader than Critical Theory in the Frankfurt School usage but not unrelated to it. Related terms en Frankfurtian Translations school of social theory and philosophy French: fr École de Francfort f German: de Frankfurter Schule f Hungarian: hu frankfurti iskola Polish: pl szkoła frankfurcka f Russian: ru фра́нкфуртская шко́ла f Spanish: es escuela de Fráncfort f en terms derived from toponyms