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.