The Frankfurt School and the Frankfurt School of Popular Culture

The Frankfurt School emerged both I would say as an outgrowth of Wama culture and as you correctly say in contestation with it. They grew out first of all of that strange moment which Michelle Levy is called the moment of utopia and redemption, a certain let's say overheated version of political possibility after failed German revolution. The Weimar culture was not simply elitist from the top down but also had some sort of theological we might say energy and also filled with anxiety. It was absolutely we might say born out or given itself a kind of confirmation in 1933 that the retrospective we might say shadow of Nazism was felt.