The core developments of the Frankfort School

  1. Outline the core developments of the Frankfort School as they explain the creation of culture, rationality, and
    ideology. Why did the focus of this theoretical work intend to integrate material production and cultural
    production? Describe the culture industry and the knowledge industry as processes of formal rationality in a
    critical analysis.
  2. Distinguish between Critical postmodern thought and Radical postmodern theories. Describe the
    background assumptions each theory outlines for “liberalism” as defined in the conditions of postmodern life.
    Include each theory’s projections for the future of human development and for social life in the postmodern
    world.