Das Institut fur Sozialforschung entstand 1923 entgegen aller in Deutschland bestehenden universitaren Logik. Der im 20. Jahrhundert einzigartigen Arbeitsgruppe war es um Alltagsfolgen der Widerspruche warenproduzierender Gesellschaften zu tun. Eine ideologiekritische Fragestellung vereinte Philosophen, Soziologen, Historiker, Philologen, Okonomen, Juristen und Psychologen: warum existiert die kapitalistische Reproduktionsweise trotz offenkundiger Dysfunktionalitat weiter und findet immer massivere Unterstutzung? Frankfurter Fragmente greift den fruhen ideologiekritischen Impuls der...

In Critical Marxism in Mexico, Stefan Gandler, coming from the tradition of the Frankfurt School, reveals the contributions that Adolfo Sanchez Vazquez and Bolivar Echeverria have made to universal thought. While in recent times Latin America has taken its distance from global power centers, and reorganised its political and economic relations, in philosophy the same tendency is barely visible. Critical Marxism in Mexico is a contribution to the reorganisation of international philosophical discussion, with Critical Theory as the point of departure. Despite having studied in...

In Critical Marxism in Mexico, Stefan Gandler, coming from the tradition of the Frankfurt School, reveals the contributions that Adolfo Sanchez Vazquez and Bolivar Echeverria have made to universal thought. While in recent years Latin America has distanced itself politically and economically from global power centers, in the realm of philosophy it has remained under the dominance of conventional western thinking.
Despite having studied in Europe, where philosophical Eurocentrism remains virulent, Gandler opens his eyes to another tradition of modernity and offers an account of the...