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Frankfurt School
noun · first attested 20th century
The Frankfurt School wrote its most famous books in American exile.
The circle of critical social theorists around the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt.
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Frankfurt School
The institute opened in Frankfurt in 1923, but its leading figures fled Germany in 1933 and did their best known work in New York and southern California. The label itself came into general use only after the war, once some of them had returned to the city.
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