Heathwood Institute and Press is a non-profit critical social research project that was formed by a collective of academic researchers across a wide range of disciplines.
Motivated and inspired by the first generation Frankfurt School and recent movements in critical empirical social research, Heathwood’s aim is to investigate the root causes of social, economic, and environmental crises by offering fundamental, interdisciplinary and methodologically innovative social critique as well as promoting concrete, critical alternatives to the type of social policy symptomatic of today’s highly unjust societies.
Offering a critical response to the crisis of contemporary social theory, Heathwood works toward a critical theory of society through retrieving and advancing key insights of the first-generation Frankfurt School and by integrating these insights with a progressive cross-disciplinary (transdisciplinary) course of study. The project does not aim to interpret critical theory from a post-structuralist or a post-modern perspective, as is common in much of contemporary social theory. Rather, in returning to the Frankfurt School, Heathwood endeavors to critique and move beyond post-structuralism and post-modern theory without regressing to positivism or falling into the traps of relativism.
