The Early Frankfurt School and Religion

1. Introduction: The Frankfurt School and the Problem of Religion
Margarete Kohlenbach, Raymond Geuss

Part I. Students, Theologians, Critical Theorists

2. Max Horkheimer’s Supposed ‘Religious Conversion’: A Semantic Analysis
Pascal Eitler

3. On the Usefulness and Uselessness of Religious Illusions
Raymond Geuss

Part II. Constructions of Religious Experience

4. Emerging ‘Orders’: The Contemporary Relevance of Religion and Teaching in Walter Benjamin’s Early Thought
Pierfrancesco Fiorato

5. Religion, Experience, Politics: On Erich Unger and Walter Benjamin
Margarete Kohlenbach

6. Allegory, Metonymy and Creatureliness: Walter Benjamin and the Religious Roots of Modern Art
Barnaba Maj

Part III. Legal Philosophy and Jewish Tradition

7. Law and Religion in Early Critical Theory
Chris Thornhill

8. Jewish Law and Tradition in the Early Work of Erich Fromm
David Groiser

9. Critical Theory and the New Thinking: A Preliminary Approach
Howard Caygill

Part IV. Dialectic of Enlightenment Reconsidered

10. Does Dialectic of Enlightenment Rest on Religious Foundations?
Rüdiger Bittner

11. Secularisation, Myth, Anti-Semitism: Adorno and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment and Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms
Gérard Raulet

Keywords: Philosophy, Classical Philosophy, Religious Studies, general, History of Philosophy