Felix Weil

Félix José Weil
Félix José Weil
Born	February 8, 1898; University of Frankfurt
Known for	Institute for Social Research

Félix José Weil (German:

Frankfurt am Main, Germany, the institute later originated the Frankfurt School

Biography

Weil was born in

Jewish origin. At the age of 9 he was sent to attend school in Germany at the Goethe-Gymnasium, Frankfurt

He attended the

Socialization: An Attempt at a Conceptual Foundation, with a Critique of the Plans for Socialization".^[1]

He did his doctorate in Frankfurt am Main on the concept of socialization. Like Theodor W. Adorno, he belonged "to the generation of intellectuals born around the turn of the century and from bourgeois, mostly Jewish families, who were attracted in the 1920s to a philosophical Marxism beyond the workers' parties". He met Karl Korsch and studied Marxist economic theory.^[2]

Felix Weil married Käthe Badiert and moved to Argentina, his country of birth, for a year. The two were married from 1921 to 1929.

In 1923 he financed the Erste Marxistische Arbeitswoche ("

Georg Lukács, Karl Korsch, Richard Sorge, Friedrich Pollock, and Karl August Wittfogel. The success of this event led him and his friend Friedrich Pollock to, with the help of an endowment from his father, found the Institute for Social Research

^ Wiggershaus, R. (1995). The Frankfurt School: Its History, Theories, and Political Significance. MIT Press. p. 11.
^ Jörg Später: Zuerst kommt die Geldanlage, dann die Theorie. Das Kapital der Kapitalismuskritik: Jeanette Erazo Heufelders ökonomische Geschichte des Frankfurter Instituts für Sozialforschung rückt den Mäzen Felix Weil ins Zentrum. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung vom 7. März 2017, S. 10.

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