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Friedrich Pollock

Sociology

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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Birth Year
1894 1
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1. Wikidata: Friedrich Pollock
  • Wikidata Q77175, class allow-list match, case-insensitive label variant (w-bbfill-smallsix2-0926/resolve_ci.ps1)
  • Wikidata Q77175, P569 (w-bbfill-smallsix3-0926)
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Friedrich Pollock (Wikipedia)
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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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