"The course will examine the development of the Frankfurt school from its beginnings, to today. After examining the forerunner work of Georg Lukacs, we will concentrate on texts by the main authors: Horkheimer, Adorno, Pollock, Neumann, Kirchheimer, Marcuse, Habermas and Offe, focusing one major text each week. Topics will include philosophy of history, theory of developing capitalism, authoritarian states including fascism, sociology and psychoanalysis, theory of art and mass culture and crisis theories. Every student in the class will be asked to make an oral presentation of a text, and base a paper on that presentation that will consider the relationship of the text to the larger output of the chosen author."