Frankfurt School

British  

noun

1. philosophy a school of thought, founded at the University of Frankfurt in 1923 by Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and others, derived from Marxist, Freudian, and Hegelian theory

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Example Sentences

He was a leading member of the "Frankfurt School", a body of thought critical of capitalism from a "new left" perspective distinct from traditional Marxism.

From BBC

Along with Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, he became a leading exponent of the Frankfurt School.

From BBC

"A very deep pocketed Treasury investor is leaving the market little by little," said Emanuel Moench, one of the authors of the Fed model who is now a professor at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

From Reuters

Nor does he mention criticism of the Enlightenment from other sources, most notably "Dialectic of Enlightenment" by the Frankfurt School philosophers Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, who set out "to explain why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism."

From Salon

Sakoda’s agent-based modeling innovations are being rediscovered thanks to the research of Rainer Hegselmann, a philosopher and social scientist at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management in Germany.

From New York Times