The Frankfurt School and the Dialectics of Religion - Rudolf J. Siebert

In this video, the critical theorist Dr. Rudolf J. Siebert sits down with Dr. Dustin J. Byrd, to discuss the dialectical nature of religion. Unlike Feuerbach, Marx, Lenin, Nietzsche, and Freud, who were all influential on the Frankfurt School, the first generation of critical theorists, including Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Erich Fromm, and Leo Löwenthal, understood religion to be divided within itself; it was both emancipatory as well as dominating. It could be both progressive and regressive; a tool for liberations as well as an ideology of oppression.

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