[lbo-talk] frankfurt school query

[Marv Gandall]

Why did I neglect to first mention Perry Anderson's Considerations on 
Western Marxism, which I can never recommend highly enough? It attributes 
the /cultural idealist turn in Western Marxism to disillusionment and 
despair within the progressive intelligensia resulting from the failure of 
the working class socialist revolution to materialize in the advanced 
capitalist countries. The Frankfurt School is treated prominently in this 
context.

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From: "Marv Gandall" <marvgandall at videotron.ca>
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Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] frankfurt school query


>I haven't read it - another one of those "wish I had the time" - but George
> Friedman, the neocon head of Stratfor, the US intelligence consultancy,
> advanced what the left would consider a provocative thesis about the
> Frankfurt School. He claimed it for the right, in effect, by situating it 
> in
> the tradition of the anti-Enlightenment Romantic reaction to capitalism, 
> the
> bourgeoisie, and liberalism, with Nietzsche, Spengler, and Heidegger it's
> ideological precursors as much as Marx. His Political Philosophy of the
> Frankfurt School appeared in the 1980's.
>
>
>
>> On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:46:14 +0200 Ira Glazer <ira.glazer at gmail.com>
>> writes:
>>> can someone please recommend a good introduction to the frankfurt
>>> school
>
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