WestEnd. Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung

“WestEnd. Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung,” which has been published by the Institute for Social Research since 2004, is aimed at a broad intellectual reading audience. It takes its lead from its famous predecessor, the “Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung,” insofar as it remains committed both to the idea of interdisciplinarity and to the claim of a critical theory of society. It publishes essays from a variety of disciplines that, taken together, contribute to a comprehensive analysis of the current social situation and uncover perspectives for emancipatory transformation.

Schriften. Institute for Social Research

Since 2023, the Schriften series of the Institute for Social Research (IfS) has followed on from the Frankfurt Contributions to Sociology and Social Philosophy, which were also previously published by Campus Verlag. Introduced in 2002, these volumes in turn had taken up the tradition of the Frankfurt Contributions to Sociology published by the IfS between 1955 and 1971 with the Europäische Verlagsanstalt (European Publishing House). The Writings series provides a forum for the theoretical and empirical research conducted at the IfS, as well as for foundational contributions to a critical analysis of society from all social science, humanities and cultural studies disciplines. The series is edited for the Institute for Social Research by its faculty.

Publication Series of the IfS | Frankfurter Beiträge zur Soziologie und Sozialphilosophie

Following the series founded by Theodor W. Adorno and Walter Dirks in 1955 and discontinued in 1971, this series includes monographs and research reports that reflect the theoretical and empirical issues dealt with in the Institute’s work. Its thematic spectrum was deliberately broadly conceived to include social philosophy, because nowadays it can no longer be taken for granted that reflection on philosophical conceptualization is an integral part of research in sociology.

IfS Aus der Reihe

The publication series initiated in 2022 comprises reflections and interventions addressing current issues, conceived in the spirit of social theory. The series offers the IfS working groups the opportunity to make their plural academic discussion processes accessible to a broader public. The volumes provide space for short text formats rooted in the tradition of the essay as a free and open form. In both its conception and production, IfS Aus der Reihe also reflects the cooperative work of the Institute. Editorial team: Saskia Gränitz, Leonie Hunter, Almut Poppinga, Minna Ruokonen-Engler, Christian Sperneac-Wolfer, Felix Trautmann, Franziska Wildt.

IfS Working Papers

The Working Papers are a publication organ of the collaborators of the IfS. Articles, essays, presentations, discussion papers, and reports appear at irregular intervals that reflect the full breadth of the research work of the Institute. The comparatively open format enables the authors to present empirical material in greater detail or to explore more tentative theses than is normally possible in journal articles, or both. The Working Papers are available online at the Institute’s website and at the website of the German National Library.

Adorno Lectures

Since 2002, the Institute for Social Research has organized in cooperation with Suhrkamp Verlag annual lectures commemorating Theodor W. Adorno that take place on three successive evenings. The purpose of the lectures is not to provide philological interpretations of his writings, but rather to reveal the vital traces of his interdisciplinary work in philosophy, literary studies, aesthetics, and the social sciences, and to promote his influence on contemporary theory formation in the human sciences.

Other book publications

Publications from the Institute for Social Research by other publishers.

Podcast

The IfS podcast “Aufzeichnungen” has been reporting on research projects and publications from the Institute for Social Research at consistently irregular intervals since 2021. In short conversations, researchers speak about how they arrived at and what interests them about their research topics, and provide insights into their everyday work. The conversations give expression to the full range of disciplines, themes, and methods of social research and social theory at the IfS.

Publications 1950–2001