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School of sociology and critical theory
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The Frankfurt School is a school of thought in sociology and critical theory. It is associated with the Institute for Social Research founded on February 3rd 1923 at the University of Frankfurt am Main (today known as Goethe University Frankfurt). Formed during the Weimar Republic during the European interwar period, the first generation of the Frankfurt School was composed of intellectuals, academics, and political dissidents dissatisfied with the socio-economic systems of the 1930s: namely, capitalism, fascism, and communism.
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