The Frankfurt school in exile / Thomas Wheatland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wheatland, Thomas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frankfurt school of sociology--History.

Frankfurt school of sociology.

Schools of sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (440 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Members of the Frankfurt School have had an enormous effect on Western thought, beginning soon after Max Horkheimer became the director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt am Main, in 1930. Also known as the Horkheimer Circle, the group included such eminent intellectuals as Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Leo Lowenthal, and Friedrich Pollock. Fleeing Nazi oppression, Horkheimer moved the Institute and many of its affiliated scholars to Columbia University in 1934, where it remained until 1950.Until now, the conventional portrayal of the Institute

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface: Critical Theory and the United States; Introduction: A Brief History of the Frankfurt School before Its Arrival in the United States; Part I. Critical Theory on Morningside Heights; 1. New York Transit: An Invitation to Columbia University; 2. Failure and the Mythologies of Exile: The Frankfurt School's Years at Columbia University; Part II. The Owl of Minerva Comes to New York; 3. John Dewey's Pit Bull: Sidney Hook and the Confrontation between Pragmatism and Critical Theory; 4. Crosstown Traffic: The New York Intellectuals Encounter Critical Theory

Part III. Critical Theory and the Rise of Postwar Sociology5. The Atlantic Divide: Building Bridges between Anglo-American Empiricism and Continental Social Theory; 6. Assimilation and Acceptance: Studies in Prejudice; Part IV. Message in a Bottle; 7. Specters of Marx: The Frankfurt School in the Era of the New Left; 8. Marcuse's Mentors: The American Counterculture and the Guru of the New Left; Conclusion: The Frankfurt School's American Legacy; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-6808-6

OCLC:

527737450