- Felix Weil
Felix Weil (1898-1975) was a founding member and the original financial provider for the
Institute for Social Research inFrankfurt am Main ,Germany .He was born in
Buenos Aires ,Argentina and was the son of the wealthy German-born merchant Hermann Weil and his wife Rosa Weil. At the age of 9 he was sent to attend school in Germany at theGoethe-Gymnasium, Frankfurt .He went on to attend the universities in
Tübingen and Frankfurt, where he graduated with a doctoral degree inpolitical science . While at these universities he became increasingly interested insocialism andMarxism . According to intellectual historianMartin Jay , the topic of his dissertation was "the practical problems of implementing socialism" (Jay 1973, 5).In 1923 he financed the First Marxist Work Week (Erste Marxistische Arbeitswoche) in the German town of
Ilmenau . The event was attended by figures such asGeorg Lukács ,Karl Korsch ,Richard Sorge ,Friedrich Pollock , andKarl August Wittfogel . Based on the success of this event he went on, along with his friendFriedrich Pollock , to found theInstitute for Social Research in 1924.References
* Jay, Martin. The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950. Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Company, 1973.
* Wiggershaus, Rolf. The Frankfurt School: Its History, Theories and Political Significance. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1995.ee also
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Institute for Social Research
*Frankfurt School
*Critical theory (Frankfurt School)
*Friedrich Pollock External links
* [http://www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/english/history.htm History of the Institute of Social Research from the Institute for Social Research]
* [http://www.marxists.org/subject/frankfurt-school/ The Frankfurt School at Marxists.org]
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