Jay, Martin, 1944-

The dialectical imagination : a history of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950 / Martin Jay. - xxxv, 382 pages ; 21 cm. - Weimar and now ; 10 . - Weimar and now ; 10. .

Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, 1973.

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

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

"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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Institut für Sozialforschung (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)--History.


Social sciences--Research--United States
Frankfurt school of sociology

H62 / .J37 1996

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