Dialectical Imagination A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950

Name: Dialectical Imagination A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950
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ISBN: 9780520204232

ISBN-10: 0520204239

ISBN-13: 9780520204232

Edition: 1996

Authors: Martin Jay

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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 Imaginationis 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.

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/5/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 382
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Preface to the 1996 Edition


Foreword



Introduction


Acknowledgments



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



The Genesis of Critical Theory



The Integration of Psychoanalysis



The Institut's First Studies of Authority



The Institut's Analysis of Nazism



Aesthetic Theory and the Critique of Mass Culture



The Empirical Work of the Institut in the 1940's



Toward a Philosophy of History: The Critique of the Enlightenment


Epilogue


Chapter References


Bibliography


Index