Are there any fans of the Frankfurt School of thought (i.e. Marcuse, Adorno, Horkheimer, and Habermas)? They look interesting at the moment and I am wondering if they are worth looking into.
habermas is a fun read
-Imp
Habermas is one of those guys who’ll never use a one syllable word if an alternative 5 syllable one is available - Adorno’s not quite so hard to read - Have ya tried any Walter Benjamin?
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Benjamin’s fascinating. More so than most he laid the groundwork for poststructuralism’s aesthetic philosophy. Though he does have a forename for a surname, and I don’t trust people like that.
Did Adorno overturn the philosophical tradition of presupposing identity and putting difference as primary?
I know he took on Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger in Negative Dialectics.
Are there similarities between Adorno and Deleuze?
Thanks. Well, as my reading list is about 300 books long, I was wondering if they would be worth the time or if they would skew my judgment. A picture of hot dogs was perhaps different what I expected, but I’ll take what I can get 
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So I take it that yes they are, some of them? I’m reading Habermas for class right now and he’s interesting. I’ll probably end up looking more into him, and Adorno/Benjamin as well.
I particularly found the chapter “The Cultural Industries” from Adorno and Horkhiemer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment very interesting. From what I’ve read and heard, modern critiques of the media, movies, newspapers etc. as brainwashing the great mass owe their existence to this chapter. It’s a very good read, especially considering it was written in the 1930s.