num_pages: 420
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School & the Institute of Social Research, 1923-50
titlecomplete: The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School & the Institute of Social Research, 1923-50
genres: Academic, 20th Century, Politics, Nonfiction, Philosophy, World History, Theory, Social Science, Sociology, History
ratings_count: 373
series: Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
awards: awardedAt: 94723200000
name: Herbert Baxter Adams Prize
publisher: University of California Press