The Tragedy of Enlightenment: An Essay on the Frankfurt School

by Paul Connerton

Book Overview

First published in 1980, this essay on the Frankfurt School deals with one of the most important threads in the story of cultural migration from Europe which began in the 1930s. For long best known in the English-speaking world through the influence of Herbert Marcuse, the school played a unique role in the history of the intellectual emigration, since its core members, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, returned to Germany after the Second World...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521296757
• ISBN13: 9780521296755
• Release Date: February 1980
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"