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

Martin Jay
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
eBook, English, 1996
University of California Press, Berkeley, 1996
History
1 online resource (xxxv, 382 pages)
9780520204232, 9780520917514, 9781280080142, 9786613520227, 0520204239, 0520917510, 1280080140, 6613520225
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Preface to the 1996 Edition  Foreword by Max Horkheimer  Introduction  Acknowledgments  I. 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 
Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, 1973
English