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The dialectical imagination : a history of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950 / Martin Jay.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Weimar and now ; 10.Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1996Description: xxxv, 382 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0520204239
  • 9780520204232
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 300.720434164 20
LOC classification:
  • H62 .J37 1996
Contents:
Preface to the 1996 Edition -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Creation of the Institut fur Sozialforschung and Its First Frankfurt Years -- 2. The Genesis of Critical Theory -- 3. The Integration of Psychoanalysis -- 4. The Institut's First Studies of Authority -- 5. The Institut's Analysis of Nazism -- 6. Aesthetic Theory and the Critique of Mass Culture -- 7. The Empirical Work of the Institut in the 1940's -- 8. Toward a Philosophy of History: The Critique of the Enlightenment -- Epilogue -- Chapter References -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: "Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Franz Neumann, Theodor Adorno, Leo Lowenthal--the impact of the Frankfurt School on the sociological, political, and cultural thought of the twentieth century has been profound. The Dialectical Imagination is a major history of this monumental cultural and intellectual enterprise during its early years in Germany and in the United States. Martin Jay has provided a substantial new preface for this edition, in which he reflects on the continuing relevance of the work of the Frankfurt School."--Publisher description.
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Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, 1973.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-370) and index.

Preface to the 1996 Edition -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Creation of the Institut fur Sozialforschung and Its First Frankfurt Years -- 2. The Genesis of Critical Theory -- 3. The Integration of Psychoanalysis -- 4. The Institut's First Studies of Authority -- 5. The Institut's Analysis of Nazism -- 6. Aesthetic Theory and the Critique of Mass Culture -- 7. The Empirical Work of the Institut in the 1940's -- 8. Toward a Philosophy of History: The Critique of the Enlightenment -- Epilogue -- Chapter References -- Bibliography -- Index.

"Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Franz Neumann, Theodor Adorno, Leo Lowenthal--the impact of the Frankfurt School on the sociological, political, and cultural thought of the twentieth century has been profound. The Dialectical Imagination is a major history of this monumental cultural and intellectual enterprise during its early years in Germany and in the United States. Martin Jay has provided a substantial new preface for this edition, in which he reflects on the continuing relevance of the work of the Frankfurt School."--Publisher description.

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