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  • Friedrich Pollock: The by Philipp Lenhard book cover
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  • Friedrich Pollock: The by Philipp Lenhard book cover
  • Friedrich Pollock: The by Philipp Lenhard book cover
  • Friedrich Pollock: The by Philipp Lenhard book cover
  • Friedrich Pollock: The by Philipp Lenhard book cover
  • Friedrich Pollock: The by Philipp Lenhard book cover
  • Friedrich Pollock: The by Philipp Lenhard book cover
  • Friedrich Pollock: The by Philipp Lenhard book cover
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Friedrich Pollock: The

by Philipp Lenhard

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A life woven into the Frankfurt School

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A life woven into the Frankfurt School

Philipp Lenhard’s biography brings Friedrich Pollock into view as a consequential yet often overlooked figure in the history of Critical Theory. Pollock’s life crossed several tensions: he came from an industrialist family while rejecting private property, and worked as an economist while questioning Marxism’s relevance. The account connects his story to the political culture of the Weimar Republic, German-Jewish emigration to the United States, and the development of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, which he founded with Max Horkheimer as his close companion. Together, these strands place Pollock within the wider history of German-Jewish intellectual life.

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  • Readers interested in the Frankfurt School and Critical Theory
  • Those exploring German-Jewish intellectual history and emigration to the United States
  • Readers seeking a biography of a less familiar figure in twentieth-century philosophy

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Critical TheoryThe Frankfurt SchoolWeimar RepublicGerman-Jewish intellectual history and emigrationTensions between political commitments and personal circumstances

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Book overview

A pioneering biography of an overlooked but integral figure in the history of the Frankfurt School.

Friedrich Pollock was many things. The son of an industrialist who wanted to abolish private property. A Jew who didn't want anything to do with Judaism. A professor who published little. An economist who squandered his wealth on the stock market. A communist who thought Marxism was anachronistic. And finally: a critical intellectual.

When dealing with the political culture of the Weimar Republic, the development of Critical Theory and German-Jewish emigration to the USA, there is no way around Pollock. Max Horkheimer's companion and the founder of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt plays an important part in German-Jewish intellectual history as one of the most prominent representatives of Critical Theory.

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