Early Frankfurt School Reading List

Early Frankfurt School Reading List

Origins: The Concept of Reification

Lukács, Georg, “Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat”, in: History and Class Consciousness, pp. 83-22, The MIT Press, 1972

I The aims of the Original Program

Week II

1) Horkheimer, Max (1975), “Traditional and Critical Theory”, in: Critical Theory. Selected Essays, Continuum Publishing Corporation, p. 188-252

2) Horkheimer, Max [1931] (1993), “The Present Situation of Social Philosophy and the Tasks of an Instıtute for Social Research” in Between Philosophy and Social Science. Selected Early Writings Max Horkheimer, MIT Press, p. 1-14

Week III

1) Marcuse, Herbert [1937] (1989), “Philosophy and Critical Theory” in Stephan Eric Bronner and Douglas MacKay Kellner (ed.) Critical Theory and Society: a reader, Routledge p. 58-76

2) Horkheimer, Max [1931] (1993), “History and Psychology” in Between Philosophy and Social Science. Selected Early Writings Max Horkheimer, MIT Press, p. 111-128

3) Horkheimer, Max (1975), “Authority and Family”, in: Critical Theory. Selected Essays, Continuum Publishing Corporation, p. 47-129

II Variations of the Original Plan

Week IV Cultural Criticism

1) Löwenthal, Leo [1932] (1989), “On Sociology of Literature” in Stephan Eric Bronner and Douglas MacKay Kellner (ed.) Critical Theory and Society: a reader, Routledge p. 40-51

2) Adorno, Theodor W. (2001), “On the Fetish Character of Music and the Regression of Listening” in The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture, Routledge, 29-60

3) Horkheimer, Max (1975), “Art and Mass Culture”, in: Critical Theory. Selected Essays, Continuum Publishing Corporation, p. 273-290

4) Adorno, Theodor W. (1989), „The Culture Industry Reconsidered”, in Stephan Eric Bronner and Douglas MacKay Kellner (ed.) Critical Theory and Society: a reader, Routledge, p. 128-136

5) Adorno, Theodor W. (1982), “Commitment”, in Andrew Arato and Eike Gebhardt (ed.) The Essential Frankfury School Reader, Continuum Publishing Company, p. 300-318

Week V Critique of Instrumental Reason and Totalitarianism

1) Horkheimer, Max [1941] (1982), “The End of Reason”, in Andrew Arato and Eike Gebhardt (ed.) The Essential Frankfurt School Reader, Continuum Publishing Company, p. 26-48

2) Horkheimer, Max / Theodor W. Adorno [1944/1947] (2002), “The Concept of Enlightenment” in Dialectic of Enlightenment, Stanford University Press, p. 1-34

3) Horkheimer, Max [1947] (2004), Eclipse of Reason, Continuum Publishing Company

Week VI Critique of State and Law

1) Kirchheimer, Otto [1933] (1996), “Remarks on Carl Schmitt’s Legality and Legitimacy” in William E. Scheuermann (ed.), The Rule of Law under Siege. Selected Essays of Franz L. Neumann and Otto Kirchheimer, p. 64-98

2) Pollock, Friedrich [1941], (1982), “State Capitalism: Its Possibilities and Limitations”, in Andrew Arato and Eike Gebhardt (ed.) The Essential Frankfurt School Reader, Continuum Publishing Company, p. 71-94

3) Neumann, Franz L. (1942), Behemoth, Oxford University Press, p. 41-97

4) Neumann, Franz L. (1953), “The Concept of Political Freedom”, Colombia Law Review Vol. 53 No: 7 Nov. p. 901-935

Week VII-VIII Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory

1) Adorno, Theodor W. [1950] (1989), “Introduction to The Authoritarian Personality” in Stephan Eric Bronner and Douglas MacKay Kellner (ed.) Critical Theory and Society: a reader, Routledge, p. 219-232

2) Adorno, Theodor W. [1951] (1982), “Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propoganda” in Andrew Arato and Eike Gebhardt (ed.) The Essential Frankfurt School Reader, Continuum Publishing Company, p. 118-137

3) Marcuse, Herbert [1955] (1962), Eros and Civilization: a philosophical inquiry into Freud, Vintage Books