An Interview with Hans-Peter Gruber on the Life and Work of Felix Weil: Argentine, Millionaire, Marxist, and Founder of the Frankfurt School

Felix Weil’s most lasting contribution to the culture of the 20th century was certainly the Institute for Social Research. An institute for Marxist research and teaching was a new and innovative institution – and unique in this form. Felix Weil did not see Marxism as a political orientation, but as a discipline, comparable to any other subject taught at university.

Council Communists Meet Philosophers from Heidelberg – The Pre-History of Critical Theory in 1920s Germany

In der Dämmerung: Studien zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Kritischen Theorie (In the Twilight. Studies on the Pre- and Early History of Critical Theory) by Christian Voller, Matthes & Seitz, 2022, 414 pages, German.   Reviewed by Jonathan Roessler, Free University Berlin, 2023.   Pentecost 1923, Geraberg, a small village on the northern edge of the