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Institute for Social Research

A Marxist institute in American exile: research, ideas and influence

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  1. The Frankfurt School: Its History, Theories, and Political Significance Rolf Wiggershaus.
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    Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History, Theories, and Political Significance, translated by Michael Robertson (MIT Press, 1994; inspected third paperback printing, 1998). A historian's account. Printed page numbers verified in the archive PDF, whose printed pages often occupy two PDF pages.

  2. The History of the IfS Institute for Social Research.
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    Institute for Social Research, “The History of the IfS,” the Institute's account of its history, “Reopening,” accessed September 30, 2026: institutional history . Used for dates after the war. Its date for Horkheimer becoming director differs from Wiggershaus. This draft follows Wiggershaus's dates for his appointment and opening address.

  3. The New Left and the 1960s: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, Volume 3 Herbert Marcuse; editor Douglas Kellner; preface Angela Y. Davis.
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    Herbert Marcuse, The New Left and the 1960s: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, vol. 3, edited by Douglas Kellner (Routledge, first print publication 2005; ebook copyright 2004). Angela Y. Davis's preface, pp. vii–xiv, is her own account, written years later. “Marcuse Defines His New Left Line,” pp. 100–104 cited here, is a translated 1968 interview, originally in Express, then New York Times Magazine, October 27, 1968; translator not identified in the inspected editorial note.

  4. Traditional and Critical Theory Max Horkheimer.
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    Max Horkheimer, “Traditional and Critical Theory” (1937), in Critical Theory: Selected Essays, translated by Matthew J. O'Connell for this essay (Continuum reprint, 2002; English copyright 1972), pp. 188–243. The author's own argument. The PDF includes this essay and related texts, not the whole book. Page numbers refer to the printed pages.

  5. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno.
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    Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments, edited by Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, translated by Edmund Jephcott (Stanford University Press, 2002). Primary text; cited prefaces xiv–xvi and culture-industry chapter pp. 94–97. A scan was checked. Some passages were hard for software to read. No direct quotes were taken from those passages.

  6. Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud Herbert Marcuse.
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    Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud (inspected Routledge edition, 1998 reissue with Douglas Kellner's preface; digital edition 2005). Primary text. Chapter 2, paragraphs defining surplus repression and the performance principle, archive PDF pp. 30–31. These are PDF locators, not verified printed-page numbers.

  7. One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society Herbert Marcuse.
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    Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (1964; inspected Routledge Classics edition, 2002, later printing). Primary text; pp. 3–8.

  8. Repressive Tolerance Herbert Marcuse.
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    Herbert Marcuse, “Repressive Tolerance” (1965), in Robert Paul Wolff, Barrington Moore Jr. and Marcuse, A Critique of Pure Tolerance (Beacon paperback, 1969; inspected fifth printing, December 1970), pp. 81–117. The author's argument about what should be done. Original-page scan hosted by the Marcuse family: original-page scan . The 1968 postscript is separate. Cited pp. 109–111 correspond to scan pages 19–20.

  9. Secret Reports on Nazi Germany: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse and Otto Kirchheimer; editor Raffaele Laudani.
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    Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse and Otto Kirchheimer, Secret Reports on Nazi Germany: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort, edited by Raffaele Laudani (Princeton University Press, 2013). Wartime reports. The editor identifies their authors. “Notes on the Texts,” pp. xvii–xix; report 16, pp. 253–254, July 22, 1944, R&A 1655.5. The editor uses archive records to identify the writer. The original report was unsigned. The report alone cannot show which advice officials followed.

  10. The Authoritarian Personality T. W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson and R. Nevitt Sanford.
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    T. W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson and R. Nevitt Sanford, The Authoritarian Personality (1950; inspected Verso EPUB reissue, 2019). Primary study. Series foreword by Horkheimer and Samuel H. Flowerman, `OEBPS/08Foreword.xhtml`; Horkheimer's preface, `09Preface.xhtml`; ch. I, §A “The Problem,” `11Chapter01.xhtml`; ch. VIII, sampling-bias discussion, `19Chapter08.xhtml`. These are chapter/section/fragment locators, not invented EPUB page numbers.

  11. Introduction to The Authoritarian Personality (2019) Peter E. Gordon.
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    Peter E. Gordon, introduction to the 2019 Verso edition of The Authoritarian Personality, `OEBPS/06_Introduction.xhtml`, paragraphs discussing Edward Shils and Sanford. An account of the book's later reception. This is a new introduction to The Authoritarian Personality, not a second copy that independently proves its findings.

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