Abstract

All the sociological literature points to the Frankfurt School Theorists using Marx for Alienated Labor and Freud for psychoanalysis in constructing Critical Theory in an effort to explain the inhuman treatment of humanity by the German fascists This original effort suggests that the foundational theorists FTCT of Critical Theory Adorno Fromm Marcuse and Horkheimer were also profoundly influenced by the Buddhist philosopher N g rjuna s major thematic focus is sunyata or emptiness one of the key Buddhist doctrines