Critical Theory in Adorno and Marcuse
Critical Theory in Adorno and Marcuse

Summary/Abstract: Critical Theory is the key-word representing all the universe of thought commonly known as “Frankfurt School”. Within it, Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno and Herbert Marcuse are not so far each other, as instead are Max Horkheimer and Marcuse – considering what I in this paper define as the conservative turn of the director of the Institut für Sozialforschung. Whereas Adorno refuses any engagement in the political and lives as an obsession the theory-praxis relation, Marcuse is closer to a certain critical Marxism and to the student movements of Sixities and Seventhies. The crucial issue of the theorypraxis relation comes back clearly in the distance between Marcuse and the other two maîtres à penser, about their judgment on the ‘68 movement.

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