Frankfurt School
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The Frankfurt School was a Marxist approach to philosophy and social criticism that originated with the Institute of Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1923. Planned as a German Marx-Engels-Institute (Moscov), it changed somewhat under its second director, Max Horkheimer. Its most famous members (and associated writers) were Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, Walter Benjamin and Jürgen Habermas. The Frankfurt school of thought, also called critical theory, was the intellectual inspiration behind the German New Left. Later, in the Unites Staates, it served as one foundation of postmodernism.