本文以詮釋學的「效應歷史」的角度，描述法蘭克福學派或批判理論在台灣的接受過程。法蘭克福學派在台灣的接受與上世紀八零年代台灣民主運動息息相關，他不僅表現為一種對黨國資本主義統治或意識型態的批判，並展開以公民社會為訴求的思想運動。
本文一方面陳述了台灣學界的法蘭克福學派研讀，另一方面呈現出學術與現實的高度結合，尤其是當台灣國家機器反共（產主義） 、恐馬（克思主義），法蘭克福學派的著作與思想成了一種思想的武器，以對抗統治意識型態，形成的一種有趣的面貌。

This study is from the “effective history” perspective of hermeneutics, describes the reception process of Frankfurt School or critical Theory in Taiwan. the reception of Frankfurt School in Taiwan is closely related to the democracy movement in Taiwan during the 1980s. Not only does it represented an ideological critique of party-state capitalism regime, and develop an intellectual movement that appeals to civil society.
This essay on the one hand presents intellectual readings of Frankfurt school in Taiwan, and on the other hand, it presents a highly integration
between the academic community and political reality, especially when
the state apparatus is anti-communism, fearful of Marxism, the Frankfurt
school's ideas and publications constituted a kind of intellectual weapons, resisting or confronting ideology of the ruling power, composing an interesting contour.