> The BBC Radio 4 show In Our Time this week featured a discussion about
> the early Frankfurt School with Jonathan Rée, Esther Leslie, and Raymond
> Geuss. Just having started reading about the Frankfurt School
> myself, I can't vouch for the quality of the discussion. I would be
> interested in hearing from those who know more about this school as to how
> accurate the presentation was.
> http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/iot/iot_20100114-1011a.mp3
> (41 minutes, 19.7 MB)
Just catching up with my email - it's not a bad introduction, but there are a few howlers, e.g. Adorno did not say "Only the exaggerations are true". Adorno said, "The only true thing in psychoanalysis are the exaggerations", a critique of mainstream Freudianism. Also, some of the most important innovations of the Frankfurt School -- the idea of the total system, the preponderance of the object, the culture-industry, state-monopoly aesthetics as form -- were entirely omitted.
-- DRR