![]() ![]() ![]() To the Frankfurt theorists, the material conditions in an inegalitarian class society created conflicts, but the unequal social conditions could be changed. Horkheimer, when he became the director for the Institute for Social Research in 1931, set it as the primary agenda. They emphasized the autonomy of cultural superstructure over the later Marx’s determinism of the economic base on a legal-political superstructure. Horkheimer and Adorno employed Hegelian dialects to try and analyze society as a totality. They expanded on Marxism by analyzing it’s political economy and extending it to interconnections between various fields, and also emphasized Hegel’s theory of dialectical interactions.Ĭritical Theory drew it’s inspiration from Marxism. They mainly focused on studying and researching the principles of Marxism as proscribed by Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels. ![]() The issue of domination was researched in depth by two Germans, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, who were living in self-imposed exile in New York and Los Angeles. Merchant starts off by explaining domination with regard to human-human or human-nature interactions. Carolyn Merchant’s book is about the Frankfurt school’s analysis of human domination with today’s modern world consisting of socialist ecologists, ecofeminists, people of colour, spiritual ecologists and post-modern scientists. ![]()
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