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Jürgen Habermas: The Unforced Force of the Better Argument

Jürgen Habermas (1929-2026) ranks as the leading German philosopher of the postwar period and the central figure of the Frankfurt School’s second generation. For more than seven decades he defended a single proposition: that free societies can govern themselves through … Continue reading

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After Suspicion – The Rita Felski Story

Rita Felski was born in 1956 and grew up in England in a lower-middle-class household with no strong national attachments. She has described feeling at home nowhere in particular, a sensibility that turns out to be structurally important for understanding … Continue reading

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The Political Economy of the Frankfurt School

Christian Fleck writes The paper presents the findings of two recent books on the financial history of the Frankfurt School: Jeanette Erazo-Heufelder, Der argentinische Krösus: Kleine Wirtschaftsgeschichte der Frankfurter Schule, 2017, and Bertus Mulder, Sophie Louisa Kwaak und das Kapital … Continue reading

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