SOCI 3692 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Frankfurt School, Monopoly Capital, Antonio Gramsci
9 Jan 2018
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Frankfurt school: max horkheimer (1895-1973), theodor adormo (1903-1969) Traditional theory claims to be autonomous + disinterested. The critique of second nature immutable facts necessary laws. When one speaks of western marxism, one distinguishes it from eastern marxism. Which was associated with the soviet union and communist parties. The later produced what might be called and orthodox form of marxism, a marxism that claims to be a science with immutable laws. Western marxism produced a form of heterodox, that didn"t make claims relative to science. When one speaks of this they include antonio gramsci. Though he was the head of the italian communist party, he found himself in jail because of mussolini, he began to turn to unorthodox claims. Sometimes one includes george lukacs who wrote history and class consciousness. The frankfurt school: a number of german, jewish thinkers. Beginning at the end of the 1920s, they established a school for social research in.
