TY - JOUR U1 - Wissenschaftlicher Artikel A1 - Breuer, Stefan T1 - The Truth of Modern Society? Critical Theory and Fascism JF - New German Critique, Vol. 44, No. 2 (2017), pp. 75-103. [Online ISSN 1558-1462] [doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-3860213] N2 - The article discusses the contributions of the Frankfurt School (Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, and Erich Fromm) to a theory of fascism in the 1930s and 1940s, after the Institute for Social Research had moved to the United States. The discussion concentrates on the economic and psychoanalytic aspects and concludes that Critical Theory remained too close to traditional Marxism to generate more profound insights into the nature of fascism, especially with regard to its political features. AB - The article discusses the contributions of the Frankfurt School (Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, and Erich Fromm) to a theory of fascism in the 1930s and 1940s, after the Institute for Social Research had moved to the United States. The discussion concentrates on the economic and psychoanalytic aspects and concludes that Critical Theory remained too close to traditional Marxism to generate more profound insights into the nature of fascism, especially with regard to its political features. Y1 - 2017 ER -