The social scientists and the philosophers of the Frankfurt School
tried to integrate the outcomes of philosophy and
of the social sciences, into one encompassing critical theory.
And in order to achieve that goal, they created work groups where political
scientists, and psychologists, historians, anthropologists, sociologists.
To mention just a few disciplines collaborated
in working on what they considered central problems.
That was a huge task for those great thinkers.
It was difficult to,
to synthesize all those ideas from very dissimilar disciplines.
Norbert Thalias, who was not very interested in the work of the critical
school of Frankfurt, went his own way but he did just that.
In his work you see how elements from Freudian psychoanalytic theory,
elements from wayberian sociology, some building blocks that were laid
down by Marx, a lot of insights from historians, etc.,
etc., are brought together and integrated in such a self-evident
way that you do not even realize it when you are reading the book.
And one of the reasons for that may be that the lie is right in such an easy way.
You just don't notice what he's actually doing.