TheFrankfurt School(German:Frankfurter Schule) is a school ofsocial theoryandphilosophyassociated in part with theInstitute for Social Researchat theGoethe UniversityinFrankfurt,Germany. The school initially formed during the interwar period in Germany and consisted of dissidents who were at home neither in the existent capitalist, fascist, nor communist systems that had formed during theinterwarperiod. Meanwhile, many of these theorists believed that traditional theory could not adequately explain the turbulent and unexpected development ofcapitalistsocieties in the twentieth century. Critical of both capitalism andSovietsocialism, their writings pointed to the possibility of an alternative path tosocial development.[1]Although sometimes only loosely affiliated, Frankfurt School theorists spoke with a commonparadigmin mind, thus sharing the same assumptions and being preoccupied with similar questions.[2]To fill in the perceived omissions of traditional Marxism, they sought to draw answers from other schools of thought, hence using the insights ofantipositivistsociology,psychoanalysis,existential philosophy, and other disciplines.[3]The school's main figures sought to learn from and synthesize the works of such varied thinkers asKant,Hegel,Marx,Freud,WeberandLukcs.[4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School