En el libro de Rolf Wiggershaus, encontramos la siguiente descripción de la Escuela de Frankfurt:

In the early part of this century, a loose aggregation of intellectuals known as the "Frankfurt School" produced a body of work which was haunted by exactly such issues. Most of its names have by now become familiar to the academic community: Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, Walter Benjamin, Erich Fromm. While they engaged a dazzlingly diverse group of intellectual disciplines and theoretical approaches, the guiding thread of all of their analyses was the diagnosis of the ruined, pathological world of the early 20th century. Under the triumphant twin shadows of full-blown industrial capitalism and National Socialism, the Frankfurt School asked two familiar questions: How did we get here? and Where does salvation lie? What was so tremendously original about their collective responses was that the answers lay not in political activism or in a revolutionary labor movement, but in such abstruse phenomena as avant-garde art, psychoanalysis, dialectical philosophy, and a messianic religious faith. Their studies-which go under the general name of "Critical Theory"-were among the first which can be properly labeled interdisciplinary, encompassing insights from so many different areas. By the time of their mature works-most notably Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment-the members of the Frankfurt School no longer referred to their work as philosophy, sociology, aesthetics or psychology; it was, simply, "Theory."

“La cosa no se reduce a su fin, sino que se halla en su desarrollo, ni el resultado es el todo real, sino que lo es en unión con su devenir; el fin para sí es lo universal carente de vida, del mismo modo que la tendencia es el simple impulso privado todavía de su realidad, y el resultado escueto simplemente el cadáver que la tendencia deja tras sí. Asimismo, la diversidad es más bien el límite de la cosa; aparece allí donde la cosa termina o es lo que ésta no es.”
Hegel, Fenomenología del espíritu

Este slide show presenta imagenes del "centro" de la Escuela de Frankfurt, el Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales (Institut für Sozialforschung)fundado por Felix Weil, así como imagenes de la Universidad de Columbia donde se asentaron los frankfurtianos en l934 huyendo de la amenaza Nazi. Veremos también a las principales figuras de la escuela: Benjamim, Adorno, Horkheimer, Habermas, Marcuse y Fromm junto a los principales temas que abordo la Escuela: Industria cultural, razón instrumental y totalitarismo.