This work contains writings of members of the Frankfurt School including: "On the Concept of Philosophy" by Max Horkheimer; "Reflections from Damaged Life" and selections from "Aesthetic Theory" by Theodor W. Adorno; "Theses on the Philosophy of History" by Walter Benjamin; and "On Hedonism", "Solidarity", and "The Catastrophe of Liberation" by Herbert Marcuse; and "Adorno: The Primal History of Subjectivity", "Benjamin: Conciousness-Raising or Raising Technique", and "Marcuse: Psychic Thermidor" by Jurgen Habermas.