Critical Theory in Revolt

Critical Theory in Revolt tells the story of the student organizers who revived the Frankfurt School's antifascist ideas in the 1960s to fight imperialism, prisons, and patriarchy. For activists such as Angela Davis and Hans-Jürgen Krahl, the Frankfurt School's archive held lessons for liberation struggles the world over. By tracing this grassroots transformation of ideas, Cecilia Sebastian frees critical theory from the confines of academia to reclaim its place in a tradition of social critique dedicated to emancipation.