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The Dialectical Imagination:

A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950
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University of California Press, 1996 - History - 382 pages
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.
  

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Review: The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School & the Institute of Social Research, 1923-50

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A paragon of research, thoroughness, and organisation. Not badly written, but, more importantly an brilliantly comprehensive history of a unique constellation of like-minded scholars. Read full review

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A brilliant and fascinating book. The author's deference toward Horkheimer and Lowenthal over all other members of the Frankfurt School is evident but hardly detrimental. As mysterious and complex a ... Read full review

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Contents

The Creation of the Institut fur Sozialforschung and Its First Frankfur Years
3
The Genesis of Critical Theory
41
The Integration of Psychoanalysis
86
The Institute First Studies of Authority
113
The Institute Analysis of Nazism
143
Aesthetic Theory and the Critique of Mass Culture
173
The Empirical Work of the Institut in the 1940s
219
Toward a Philosophy of History The Critique of the Enlightenment
253
Epilogue
281
Chapter References
303
Bibliography
355
Index
371
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About the author (1996)

Martin Jay is Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his books are Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought and, as co-editor, The Weimar Sourcebook, both published by the University of California Press.

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