New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2016. Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Jürgen Habermas and others changed not just how we think but what we think about. This book presents a gripping narrative that bring these thinkers to life, showing how their ideas developed out of their times: from the terrors of Nazi Germany to the blissed-out California of the 1960s.