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The 33 pages that link to Frankfurt School, each with the reason it gives.

• Karl MarxRelated: Its theorists reworked Marx’s critique to examine culture, authority, and modern society.

• MarxismBroader topic: Its critical theory extended Marxist analysis to culture, authority, and modern society.

• Theodor W. AdornoNarrower topic: Adorno became one of its central thinkers and helped shape its account of society and culture.

• Cultural studiesRelated: Its critique of mass culture influenced debates that British cultural studies revised.

• Angela DavisNarrower topic: Its analyses of power, culture, and domination informed Davis’s philosophical training.

• Popular cultureRelated: Its critique of the culture industry shaped influential accounts of mass entertainment.

• Walter BenjaminRelated: Benjamin’s work intersected with the school’s critique of modern culture and capitalism.

• Jürgen HabermasNarrower topic: Habermas became a leading second-generation figure in this intellectual tradition.

• Critical theoryBroader topic: Its early members gave critical theory its best-known institutional home.

• Culture industryNarrower topic: Adorno and Horkheimer developed the concept within this intellectual tradition.

• Herbert MarcuseNarrower topic: Marcuse’s intellectual home shaped his account of domination and emancipation.

• Raymond WilliamsCompared with: Williams differed from accounts that treated mass culture chiefly as standardized and imposed from above.

• Erich FrommRelated: Fromm worked with the Institute and helped bring psychoanalysis into its critique of society.

• Max HorkheimerBroader topic: Horkheimer’s leadership helped establish the school’s identity and research agenda.

• New York IntellectualsCompared with: Its systematic social theory differed from the circle’s largely literary and journalistic mode.

• Continental philosophyBroader topic: It established an influential institutional center for critical theory.

• Daniel BellCompared with: Its account of mass culture and domination differs from Bell’s emphasis on structural change and ideological decline.

• Cultural criticismRelated: Its theorists examined how mass culture and media interact with capitalism and domination.

• Aesthetic TheoryNarrower topic: The book extends the school’s interdisciplinary critique of modern capitalist society.

• Marxist sociologyBroader topic: Its theorists joined Marxist analysis to studies of culture, authority, and modern society.

• Media studiesRelated: Its critique of the culture industry helped shape critical media theory.

• Norbert EliasCompared with: Elias worked in Frankfurt’s intellectual milieu but developed a distinct sociological approach.

• Popular music studiesCompared with: Its skepticism about mass culture contrasts with approaches attentive to audience agency.

• Communication studiesRelated: Its critique of mass culture influenced critical approaches to media and communication.

• Paul TillichRelated: Tillich worked with the institute before Nazi rule forced his departure from Germany.

• Western MarxismBroader topic: It is a major institutional current within the broader Western Marxist tradition.

• Rudi DutschkeRelated: Its critique of authority and mass culture supplied concepts used by the New Left.

• Cultural Marxism conspiracy theoryRelated: Conspiracy narratives recast its scholarship as a coordinated plan to transform Western culture.

• Goethe University FrankfurtRelated: The university became home to a major twentieth-century intellectual movement.

• György LukácsRelated: Its theorists developed critical analyses of modern capitalism that intersect with, and often differ from, Lukács’s work.

• Laura PerlsRelated: Laura Perls studied in Frankfurt amid the intellectual culture that also shaped her collaborators.

• Criticism of MarxismRelated: Its thinkers revised Marxism partly in response to failed revolutionary expectations and authoritarianism.

• Freudo-MarxismNarrower topic: Its interdisciplinary social critique became a major institutional home for Freudo-Marxist ideas.