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Author Jay, Martin, 1944-

Title The Dialectical Imagination : a History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1996.

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Description 1 online resource (420 pages)
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Contents Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Preface to the 1996 Edition; Foreword; Introduction; Acknowledgments; 1. 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 BibliographyIndex.
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.
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Subject Institut für Sozialforschung (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) -- History.
Institut für Sozialforschung (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
History.
Social sciences -- Research -- United States.
Social sciences -- Research.
United States.
Frankfurt school of sociology.
Frankfurt school of sociology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Jay, Martin. Dialectical Imagination : A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1996 9780520204232
ISBN 9780520917514 (electronic book)
0520917510 (electronic book)