Café Marx: a new history of the frankfurt school

"In this dazzling revisionist account, Philipp Lenhard tells the story of the Institute of Social Research-now known as the Frankfurt School-as an engine for radical scholarship. Home not only to its celebrity theorists, Lenhard uncovers the forgotten women who worked there, and the overlooked Jewish contexts of its founding and flourishing. We meet the students and activists, librarians and archivists, cleaners and janitorial staff who called the school home, and helped to build a globally influential body of thought"--