Social norms, coagulated into institutions and orders, form the foundation of our social and political coexistence. In the first half of the 20th century, the so-called Frankfurt School set out to take a holistic and (ideologically) critical look at these norms and their contradictions in the sense of a comprehensive “critical theory” – an approach whose significance and international impact remain unbroken to this day. But what does the Frankfurt School, which has always combined social analysis with ideological criticism, have to say about the current state of society? What answers does the so-called “third and fourth generation” provide to global crises and conflicts?
This is the subject of a new series of events that the Department of Culture and Science of the City of Frankfurt am Main and the “Normative Orders” research center at Goethe University are jointly hosting from March onwards. The title of the new series is “Frankfurt School”. The guests are personalities who – trained in “Frankfurt thinking” – take a position on current problems. Cooperation partners are the Institute for Social Research and hr2-Kultur. To kick off the series, Prof. Christoph Menke and Cord Riechelmann will speak on March 20 at 6 p.m. under the question “What is liberation?” at the MMK Museum of Modern Art. Admission costs 3 euros.
