In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent members of what became the Frankfurt...

But where do these ideas come from and how have they impacted on the world? In his brilliant history of a dangerous idea, Stuart Jeffries tells a narrative that starts in the early 1970s and continue to today. He tells this history...

Sie überlebten zwei Weltkriege, erlebten den Rassismus, flohen vor dem Nationalsozialismus. Sie entgingen dem Holocaust und überlebten eine Odyssee. Adorno und Horkheimer hatten den Mut, nach dem Krieg aus dem amerikanischen Exil nach...

A group biography of the Frankfurt School of philosophers including Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, Horkheimer, Lukacs and Habermas, providing a key introduction to their influential ideas. von Jeffries, Stuart