The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950Herbert 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. |
Contents
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2 The Genesis of Critical Theory | 41 |
3 The Integration of Psychoanalysis | 86 |
4 The Instituts First Studies of Authority | 113 |
5 The Instituts Analysis of Nazism | 143 |
6 Aesthetic Theory and the Critique of Mass Culture | 173 |
7 The Empirical Work of the Institut in the 1940s | 219 |
The Critique of the Enlightenment | 253 |
Epilogue | 281 |
Chapter References | 303 |
Bibliography | 355 |
Index | 371 |
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