You're listening to the Hard Men Podcast, reclaiming biblical masculinity in a world of softness.

Welcome to the Hard Men Podcast. I am your host Eric Khan. In this episode I'm going to

take an in-depth look at critical theory. I'll examine its origins, its main proponents, and basic ideological framework

and core believes, as well as how it's evolved through the years and why it's important

to understand this ideology, which is the basic foundation

behind critical race theory, feminism, black lives matter, intersectionality, and various

other social justice movements so prominent in the American culture today.

So the first thing I want to do today is take a look at critical theory and its main proponents.

Critical theory is a social theory pioneered and promoted by the Institute for Social Research, which was founded at Goth University in Frankfurt, Germany.

Known as the Frankfurt School, this group consisted of social theorists, academics, political dissidents, all of whom formulated

their ideas in the inner war period between 1918 and 1939. Now the principal members of the Frankfurt School 18 and 1339.

the principal members of the Frankfurt School included Theodore Adorno,

psychologist Eric Fromm,

Herbert Marcoosy, Walter Benjamin,

Yorgan-Obermas, and Max Horkheimer.

These theorists, many of whom were Jewish, represented differing degrees of Western Marxism,

and they engaged in a wide field of interests from philosophy

and sociology all the way to art, music and psychology.

Likewise, many other individuals

were associated with the Frankfurt School,

though they were not technically members of it.

Now, as World War II approach,

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