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The Trial by Franz Kafka stands both as one of the most emblematic and fiercely debated novels of the 20th Century. This collection brings Kafka experts together in order to explore the novel's particularly philosophical significance. Meer

Composed whilst in exile in the United States during the Second World War, Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment is the most famous and influential text of the Frankfurt School. Meer

The portentous terms and phrases associated with the first decades of the Frankfurt School – exile, the dominance of capitalism, fascism – seem as salient today as they were in the early twentieth century. Meer