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Joel Whitebook, "Freud: An Intellectual Biography" (Cambridge UP, 2017)

New Books in Critical Theory

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Understanding the Frankfurt School: Freud, Marx, and Authoritarianism

This chapter explores the Frankfurt School, a group of German-Jewish thinkers from the 1920s who analyzed the failures of classical Marxism during the Great Depression. Their integration of Freudian psychology offers insights into the authoritarian tendencies of the working class and the impact of familial structures on societal dynamics.

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