- Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse (July 19,1898 - July 29,1979) was a German-born American philosopher, sociologist and a member of the Frankfurt School.
- Walter Benjamin
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also greatly inspired by the Marxism of Bertolt Brecht and Jewish mysticism as presented by Gershom Scholem. As a sociological and cultural critic, Benjamin combined ideas of historical materialism, German idealism, …
- Max Horkheimer
Max Horkheimer (February 14, 1895 - July 7, 1973) was a Jewish-German philosopher and sociologist, a founder and guiding thinker of the Frankfurt School/critical theory.
- Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas is a German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and American pragmatism. He is best known for his work on the concept of the public sphere, which he has based in his theory of communicative action. His work has focused on the foundations of social theory and epistemology, the analysis of advanced capitalistic societies and democracy, the rule of law in a critical social-evolutionary context, …
- Theodor W. Adorno
Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno was a German sociologist, philosopher, pianist, musicologist, and composer. He was a member of the Frankfurt School along with Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Jürgen Habermas, and others. He was also the Music Director of the Radio Project. Already as a young music critic and amateur sociologist, Theodor W. Adorno was primarily a philosophical thinker.
- Erich Fromm
Erich Pinchas Fromm (March 23, 1900 - March 18, 1980) was an internationally renowned Jewish-German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, and humanistic philosopher.
- Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard (July 29, 1929 - March 6, 2007) was a French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism.
- Martin Jay
Martin Jay (born 1944) is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a renowned Intellectual Historian and his research has revolved around Marxism, the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, and other moments and concepts in German History. He received his B.A from Union College in 1965. In 1971, he completed his Ph.D. in History at Harvard under the tutelage of H. Stuart Hughes.
- Axel Honneth
Axel Honneth is a professor at the "Institut für Sozialforschung" (Institute for Social Research) in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany (the so-called Frankfurt School). He was born in Essen, and studied in Bonn, Bochum, Berlin and Munich (under Jürgen Habermas) before moving to Frankfurt. One of Honneth's core beliefs is that all grievances regarding the distribution of goods in society can be reduced to struggles for recognition.
- Friedrich Pollock
Friedrich Pollock (May 22, 1894 - 1970) was a German social scientist and philosopher. He was one of the founders of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, and a member of the Frankfurt School of neo-Marxist theory.
- Kurt Lewin
Kurt Zadek Lewin (September 9,1890 - February 12,1947), a German-born psychologist, is one of the modern pioneers of social, organizational, and applied psychology. Lewin is often recognized as the "founder of social psychology" and was one of the first researchers to study group dynamics and organizational development. In 1890, he was born into a Jewish family in Mogilno, Poland (then in County of Mogilno, province of Posen, Prussia).
- Felix Weil
Felix Weil was a founding member and the original financial provider for the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and was the son of the wealthy German-born merchant Hermann Weil and his wife Rosa Weil. At the age of 9 he was sent to attend school in Germany at the Goethe-Gymnasium, Frankfurt. He went on to attend the universities in Tübingen and Frankfurt, …
- Claus Offe
Professor Claus Offe is one of the world's leading political sociologists of marxist orientation. Once a student of Jürgen Habermas, the left-leaning German academic is counted among the second generation Frankfurt School. He has made substantive contributions to understanding the relationships between democracy and capitalism. His recent work has focused on economies and states in transition to democracy. He has been married to Ulrike Poppe since 2001.
- Leo Löwenthal
Leo Löwenthal was a German sociologist usually associated with the Frankfurt School.
- Alexander Kluge
Alexander Kluge (born February 14 1932 in Halberstadt, in the vicinity of Magdeburg, Germany) is a noted film director and author. After growing up during the Second World War, he studied law,history and music at the universities of Marburg and Frankfurt am Main, receiving his doctorate in law in 1956. While studying in Frankfurt, Kluge befriended the philosopher Theodor Adorno, who had returned to Germany and was teaching at the Institute for Social Research, …
- Alfred Schmidt
Alfred Schmidt (born May 19 1931 in Berlin) is a German philosopher and sociologist. Schmidt studied at first history and English and classical philology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt and later philosophy and sociology. He was a student of Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer and promoted with a work about the concept of nature in Karl Marx's writings.
- Wendy Brown
Wendy Brown is a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. She has made major contributions to post-Foucaultian political theory and feminist theory. In particular, she uses the ideas of Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Freud, Frankfurt School theorists, Foucault, and contemporary continental philosophers to address problematics of political power, political identity, citizenship, and political subjectivity.
- Karl August Wittfogel
Karl August Wittfogel (Woltersdorf (Germany, 6 September 1896 — New York City, 25 May 1988) was a German historian and sinologist. Wittfogel took a Ph.D. at the University of Frankfurt in 1928. He joined the Communist Party of Germany in 1920 and in the 1920s and early 30s, he was an active member of the party. Between 1925 and 1933 he was a member of the Institute for Social Research, better known as the Frankfurt School.
- Ben Watson
Ben Watson (born 1956) is a British writer on music and culture of Marxist views, known especially for his writings on Frank Zappa. Watson is well-known as a regular contributor to The Wire, as well as the author of numerous books, often entailing studies of popular culture from the perspective of Marxist aesthetics.
- Eric Trist
Eric Trist (1909-1993) was a leading figure in the field of Organizational development (OD). He was one of the founders of the Tavistock Institute for Social Research in London. In 1949, his organizational research work, studying work crews in a coal mine, with Ken Bamsforth, resulted in the famous article, "Some Social and Psychological Consequences of the Longwall Method of Coal Getting." Trist was heavily influenced by Kurt Lewin, …
- Franz Borkenau
Franz Borkenau (December 15, 1900-May 22, 1957) was an Austrian writer. Borkenau was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of a civil servant. As a university student in Leipzig, his main interests were Marxism and psychoanalysis. In 1921, Borkenau joined the Communist Party of Germany and was active as a Comintern agent until 1929. After graduating from the University of Leipzig in 1924, Borkenau moved to Berlin.
- Julian Gumperz
Julian Gumperz (May 12, 1898 - February 1972 at Gaylordsville, Connecticut) was a United States-born German sociologists, communist activist, publicist and translator.
- Amanda Anderson
Amanda Anderson is the head of the English department at Johns Hopkins University. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell University and taught at the University of Illinois before coming to Hopkins in 1999. She has been the Caroline Donovan Professor of English Literature since 2002 and is currently Chair of the department. She specializes in Victorian literature and contemporary literary, cultural, and political theory.
- Paul Massing
Paul Wilhelm Massing (30 August 1902 - 30 April 1979) was a German sociologist
- Leo Kofler
Leo Kofler (1907-1995) was a social philosopher from Cologne. He ranks with the Marburg politicologists Wolfgang Abendroth and the Frankfurt school theoreticians Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno among the few well-known Marxist intellectuals in post-war Germany. However, almost nothing of his work was ever translated into English, and he is therefore little known in the English-speaking world. Kofler had his own, distinctive interpretation of Marxism, …
- Rainer Forst
Rainer Forst (b 1964) is a German philosopher and political theorist. Currently he is Professor of Political Theory at the Institute of Philosophy, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. He is often identified with the newest generation of scholars associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. He received his doctorate under the supervision of Jürgen Habermas in 1993. His main areas of research are political theory, pragmatism, tolerance, …
- Timothy Luke
Timothy W. Luke is University Distinguished Professor of Political Science in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences as well as Program Chair of the Government and International Affairs Program, School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia.
- Franz Leopold Neumann
Franz Leopold Neumann (May 23, 1900 - September 2 1954) was a German left-liberal political activist and labor lawyer, who became a political scientist in exile and is best-known for his theoretical analyses of National Socialism. He studied in Germany and the United Kingdom, and spent the last phase of his career in the United States.
- Helmut Reichelt
Helmut Reichelt (born 1939) is a German economist and philosopher, considered to be one of the most important theorists in the field of Marx's theory of value. Already during his time as a university student he began a close long-term collaboration with Hans-Georg Backhaus.
- Charles Mudede
Charles Tonderai Mudede (born February 8 1969) is a writer and leftist culture critic, born into an educated family in Rhodesia. He spent much of his childhood in the United States and returned to the newly independent Zimbabwe in 1981. Between 1982 and 1988, his mother, Tracy Mudede, was a lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe, and his father, Ebenezer Mudede, served as an economic advisor to the then-democratically elected Zimbabwean leader, Robert Mugabe.
- Hans-Georg Backhaus
Hans-Georg Backhaus (* 1929) is a German economist and philosopher and is considered to be one of the most important theorists on the field of Marx's theory of value. Already during his time as a university student a close long-term cooperation with Helmut Reichelt began.
- Moses I. Finley
Sir Moses I. Finley CBE (May 20, 1912–June 23, 1986) was an American and English classical scholar. His most notable work is "The Ancient Economy" from 1973 where he argued that status and civic ideology governed the economy in antiquity rather than rational economic motivations. He was born in 1912 in New York City as Moses Israel Finkelstein to Nathan Finkelstein and Anna Katzenellenbogen; died in 1986 as a British subject.
- Xu Youyu
Xu Youyu (b. 1947), is a Chinese philosopher, public intellectual and proponent of Chinese liberalism. Xu, a Research Fellow in the Institute of Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, is an expert on Western social theories including Marxism and the Frankfurt School. He is particularly noted as a historian of the Cultural Revolution.
- Simone Chambers
Simone Chambers , Executive Committee Member, 2005- Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto. Professor Chambers teaches the history of political thought, critical theory, democratic theory, continental thought, and public law. For Fall 2006 she is on research leave at the Center for Ethics where she is working on a book entitled Public Reason and Deliberation.
- Lauren Langman
Dr. Langman is primarily a social theorist writing in the tradition of the Frankfurt School-especially their early concerns with character and culture, which currently inform questions of identity and hegemony in a global age. His theoretical writing examines the nature of self, subjectivity and modernity dealing with questions such as agency, or its lack, as alienation.
- Tim Hall
Tim Hall is a Senior Lecturer in International Politics. His research interests include German Idealism, Marxism and Frankfurt School Social Theory and Contemporary Social and Political Thought. He is currently working on a book on Theodor Adorno’s political thought.
- Randall van Schepen
Randall Van Schepen Randall K. Van Schepen is an Assistant Professor of Art and Architectural History in the School of Architecture, Art and Historic Preservation and University Core Professor at Roger Williams University. His chronological area of research and teaching is Modern and Contemporary, with specific interests in Formalism, Art Criticism, Psychoanalysis, Religion and Art, Museum History, Contemporary German art, and Collecting.
- William E. Scheuerman
William E. Scheuerman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He received his Ph.D from Harvard in 1993. His research interests include modern political thought, legal theory, democratic theory, 20th continental political and social thought, and globalization.
- Ben Agger
Ben Agger is Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Arlington and the Director of the Center for Theory.
- Sarit Larry
Sarit Larry holds a bachelor's degree from the American College of Greece and Tel Aviv University. Her interests are in Marx and Frankfurt School.