GERMN-258 Intro to Critical Theory: The Frankfurt School
Established in the 1920s, the loose group of scholars known as the Frankfurt School dominated German and American thought in the latter half of the 20th century, bringing together social theory, psychoanalysis, aesthetics, and anthropology to analyze questions as disparate as popular culture, authoritarianism, consumerism, and modernist art. Building on "Marx, Nietzsche, Freud," this introduction traces the unfolding of those ideas in the mid-20th century the ideas of the Frankfurt School, while exploring the School's influence on contemporary debates about politics and culture in the 21st century.
Standard Course (40)
Credits
1
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Taught in English.