Alfred Schmidt 1931 – 2012

Alfred Schmidt was a German philosopher and long-time professor at Frankfurt and one of the principal interpreters of the Frankfurt School in the second half of the twentieth century. A pupil of Adorno and Horkheimer, he served as a major editor of Horkheimer's collected writings and as co-editor of the journal Studies in Critical Theory. His Concept of Nature in Marx, Emancipatory Sensibility, and the studies of Schopenhauer and the materialist tradition in Western philosophy argued that Marx remains a thinker of the natural-bodily dimension of human history and that critical theory must hold together natural and social science.