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EPISODE · Apr 21, 2025 · 49 MIN

Schopenhauer and the Frankfurt School

from Daybreak · host Warwick’s Centre for Research in Post-Kantian Philosophy

In this episode of Daybreak, we explore the intriguing connection between Schopenhauer’s radical pessimism and the Frankfurt School’s critique of modernity. Drawing from Schopenhauer sobering vision of existence as “hell on earth”, thinkers like Benjamin, Adorno, and Horkheimer developed a powerful critique of capitalism, ideology, and social domination.Join us as David Bather Woods presents a talk on Schopenhauer’s impact on the Frankfurt School and how philosophy can help us face our historical moment truly and bravely. Here’s a link to David’s research.

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