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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jay, Martin, 1944-

Series:

Weimar and now ; 10.

Weimar and now ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Institut für Sozialforschung (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

Social sciences--Research--United States.

Social sciences.

Frankfurt school of sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1996, 1973.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface to the 1996 Edition

Foreword

Introduction

Acknowledgments

THE DIALECTICAL IMAGINATION

I. The Creation of the Institut fur Sozialforschung and Its First Frankfurt Years

II. The Genesis of Critical Theory

III. The Integration of Psychoanalysis

IV. The Institut's First Studies of Authority

V. The Institutes Analysis of Nazism

IV. Aesthetic Theory and the Critique of Mass Culture

VII. The Empirical Work of the Institut in the 1940's

VIII. Toward a Philosophy of History: The Critique of the Enlightenment

Epilogue

Chapter References

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Originally published: Little, Brown. 1973.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613520227

9781280080142

1280080140

9780520917514

0520917510

OCLC:

776108216