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Rolf Wiggershaus Germany
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Rolf
Wiggershaus was born in Wuppertal in 1944. He studied Philosophy, Sociology and
German Letters under, among others, Theodor W. Adorno, and completed his
doctorate in Frankfurt/Main under Jürgen Habermas. Since then he has been
working as a free-lance publicist and lecturer at various universities at home
and abroad. His book Die Frankfurter Schule was
published in 1986 and has since become a standard work and been translated into
several languages.
Today the “Frankfurt School” is synonymous
with one of the twentieth century’s most important philosophical and
sociological schools, and with the work of such outstanding intellectuals as
Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, Marcuse, Fromm, Habermas and others. Their names
also stand for a continuous reflection on the pathologies of modernism, for the
argumentative aspiration to a responsible, enlightened world.
Die Frankfurter Schule outlines the history of that group from
the foundation of the “Frankfurter Institut für Sozialforschung” in the Weimar
Republic to its members’ exile in the United States, their return to Germany
after the war, and the early 1970s. The book combines critically reconstructed
biographies, the history of the institute, the development of the theory, and
the presentation of the scholarly environment and socio-political background.
This book is an outstanding study: a
handbook of Critical Theory, a kind of ‘documentary epic of science’ … A great
and for the most part stimulating book.
Die Zeit
Wiggershaus published also a concise
monograph on Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer and Jürgen
Habermas, which describe their biographical background and their importance
as philosophers. These books are an excellent introduction and are highly
suitable for students of Letters, Arts and Philosophy.
We
represent Die Frankfurter Schule for
Spanish and Portuguese only.
Original editions and rights sold:
Die Frankfurter Schule, München: Hanser/dtv 1986, 792 p.
Argentina: Fondo de
Cultura Económica 2010 ● Brazil: Editora Civilização Brasileira 2003 ● China: Century Publishing Group of Shanghai ● France: Presses
Universitaires 1993 ● Italy: Bollati Boringhieri 1992 ● Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica 2010
● UK: Polity Press 1994 ● US: MIT Press 1994
Theodor W. Adorno, München: C.H. Beck, 1998, 150 p.
Japan: Heibonsha
Library 1991 ● Sweden: Daedalus 1993 ● Netherlands: Lemniscaat 2002
Max Horkheimer, Hamburg: Junius Verlag
1998, 132 S.
Wittgenstein und Adorno, Göttingen: Wallstein 2000, 144 p.
Jürgen Habermas,
Reinbek:
Rowohlt 2004 (rororo monographien 50644), 154 p.