Presents a lecture of Professor Paul H. Fry talks about the Frankfurt School. This school institutionalized the Critical Theory of Society. The teacher analyzes the writings of Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin, two great theorists of the Frankfurt School. Throughout the speech the Professor relates literature and art through the ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Finally, the teacher discusses the prospect of Benjamin on the aesthetic revelation with the use of distraction and shockEducação Superior::Linguística, Letras e Artes::Letras