Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung

The Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung was a German periodical published from 1932 to 1941, serving as the literary organ for the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. This institute was a hub for scholars known as the Frankfurt School, who developed a radical, interdisciplinary social theory rooted in Marxism and influenced by psychoanalysis.

The journal published influential critiques of capitalist society, focusing on issues like corporate power, technology's role, cultural industrialization, and the decline of the individual. The scholars, including figures like Max Horkheimer and T.W. Adorno, aimed to understand and overcome social domination, a philosophy known as critical theory. Many of these scholars fled Germany after 1933, with the institute relocating to the United States before eventually returning to Frankfurt.