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Charles H. Clavey is Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard. His research focuses on the histories of European intellectuals, social science, and political thought. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Experiments in Theory: Social Science and the Making of the Frankfurt School.
The Frankfurt School on the appeal of authoritarianism—and how to counteract it.
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