Friedrich Pollock was a German social scientist and philosopher. He was one of the founders of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main and a member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Friedrich Pollock (; German: [ˈpɔlɔk]; also Frederick Pollock; pen names Kurt Baumann, Karl Baumann; 22 May 1894-16 December 1970) was a German social scientist and philosopher.
Associated With: Goethe University Frankfurt, Article text
Pollock went on to study economy, sociology and philosophy at the LMU Munich, where he attended the lectures of Max Weber, at the University of Freiburg, where he spent a semester with Edmund Husserl, and at the University of Frankfurt, always with Horkheimer.
Practices Studied: Capitalism, Article text
Arguing that Nazi Germany was like the Soviet Union a command economy based on technological rationality, he advanced the view that state capitalism had emerged as a stable, efficient, politically neutral solution to the crises of monopoly capitalism.
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He was one of the founders of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, and a member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory.
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Institutions Informed: Julian Gumperz, Institute for Social ResearchQuote, Institutions Informed: Julian Gumperz, Institute for Social Research
Gumperz had been a student of Pollock’s since 1929 and a Communist Party member, but he gave it all up and became a stockbroker.
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