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Frankfurtian
adjective · first attested 1989
A word that looks like a demonym in practice means about a dozen exiled theorists.
Relating to the Frankfurt School of neo-Marxist social theory.
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- adjective
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Frankfurtian
The Institute for Social Research opened at the University of Frankfurt in 1923; Adorno, Horkheimer and Marcuse are its best known figures, and most of the group left Germany in 1933 and worked in the United States. The school kept the city's name throughout its exile, and the adjective describes its style of cultural criticism. A New York Times reviewer in 1989 wrote of a critic wielding that old Frankfurtian bludgeon.
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