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This volume examines the ways in which the authors of the early Frankfurt School criticized, adopted and modified traditional forms of religious thought and practice. Focusing on the works of Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Otto Kirchheimer and Franz Neumann, it analyzes the relevance of religious traditions and of the Enlightenment critique of religion for modern conceptions of emancipatory thought, art, law, and politics.

Raymond Geuss teaches in the Faculty of Philosophy at Cambridge. His recent publications include History and Illusion in Politics (2001), Public Goods, Private Goods (2001).

Margarete Kohlenbach teaches German at the University of Sussex.