ABSTRACT
The influence of the Frankfurt School on cultural studies, the humanities, and the social sciences would be difficult to overestimate. The past two decades have witnessed a proliferation of publications and studies of most of the major thinkers associated with the Frankfurt School. Scholarly work detailing the lives and dissecting the thought of Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Jrgen Habermas line the shelves of university bookstores in the United States, while the texts these thinkers produced regularly show up on the syllabi of university courses in a wide variety of disciplines. The presence of these works is more than justified by the range of the thought of all three theorists. However, this project will focus not on this presence but on an interesting absence among studies of the Frankfurt School. At the age of almost 70, an age when other philosophers faced hemlock or the hopefully genteel poverty of the retired professors pension, Marcuse became a worldwide intellectual phenomenon.
