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3 min read · 2025

ZfS in English

Collection of English translations of articles from the Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung (1932-1941), volumes 1-9.

31 min read · 2023

Essence in the Archaic. Notes Towards a Historical Materialist Account of the Concept of Essence

Article from Margin Notes 1

152 min read · March 22, 2025

2025 · journal write-up · Margin-notes
Recovering the Kernels of Early Critical Theory

Article from Margin Notes 1

34 min read · March 22, 2025

2025 · journal write-up · Margin-notes
Suffering Reified. On Adorno’s Thoughts on Reification and Suffering

Antisemitism and forgetting

47 min read · March 10, 2025

2025 · report study write-up
Précis of Mannheim’s Ideology and Utopia

A brief reconstruction of Mannheim’s thought

30 min read · November 12, 2024

2024 · report study write-up
Hans-Jürgen Krahl's Authorities and Revolution

A translation of Hans-Jürgen Krahl's 1968 text "Authorities and Revolution" | by J. E. Morain

37 min read · May 15, 2024

2024 · translation
The Origins of Studien über Autorität und Familie

A report on the early history of the Institute for Social Research's Studien über Autorität und Familie project

33 min read · April 27, 2024

2024 · archive translation study report
The concept of language and linguistic presentation in Horkheimer and Adorno, by Hermann Schweppenhäuser (1986)

An essay by Hermann Schweppenhäuser on the concept of language and linguistic presentation in Horkheimer and Adorno.

52 min read · April 22, 2024

2024 · translation language
Help for the Helpless Teddie’s Music Theory of Communism, A Prelude

A brief introduction to the music theory of communism

31 min read · April 21, 2024

2024 · write-up