Essays about: "Frankfurt School"

Found 4 essays containing the words Frankfurt School.

  1. 1. The Effects of Mass Culture on the Loman Family : The Frankfurt School Critical Theory Applied to Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Henrik Levin; [2021]
    Keywords : Miller; Marx; alienation; Frankfurt School; critical theory; mass culture; conformity; consumerism; escapism; law of success;

    Abstract : This essay discusses the effects of mass culture on the Loman family in Arthur Miller’s play, Death of a Salesman. The focus is to identify whether conformation to mass culture and alienation have caused the characters to be lonely and to give up what they enjoy and to fall in line with a system where individuality is replaced by totality. READ MORE

  3. 2. Who is (still) afraid of spectres haunting Europe? : comparing the concepts of "Judeo-Bolshevism" and "Cultural Marxism" in their respective notions of ecology

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Laudy van den Heuvel; [2020]
    Keywords : Judeo-Bolshevism; Cultural Marxism; Conceptual History; Critical Discourse Analysis; Historical Materialism; Marxism; Frankfurt School; Critical Theory; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The concepts of “Judeo-Bolshevism” (used between approx. 1917-1945) and “Cultural Marxism” (used 1973-today) seem to have a lot in common: both are derogatory concepts used to classify the political opponent. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Devils of History : Understanding Mass-violence Through the Thinking of Horkheimer and Adorno – The Case of Cambodia 1975-1979

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

    Author : Lior Becker; [2016]
    Keywords : genocide; cambodia; khmer; khmer rouge; pol pot; frankfurt school; dialectics; adorno; horkheimer; folkmord;

    Abstract : Why does mass-violence happen at all? This paper takes the first steps to establish a model to answer this question and explain extreme mass-violence as a phenomenon. This paper seeks to fill a gap in the field of research, in which models exist to explain the phenomenon of violence, with cases of genocide being seen as problems or exceptions, and as such researched as individual cases rather than as part of a wider phenomenon. READ MORE

  5. 4. The United Nations Security Council Reform: A Critical Approach

    University essay from Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utveckling

    Author : Feyzullah Yilmaz; [2007]
    Keywords : The United Nations; Security Council Reform; Critical Theory;

    Abstract : Utilizing Critical Theory, through its neo-Gramscian and Frankfurt School dimensions, as the theoretical framework, this study aims to explain how the institutions, such as the United Nations, of an international system transform together with the structure – the international system. More specifically our aim is to explain the lack of transformation of only one body, the Security Council, of that specific institution, the United Nations. READ MORE