The Frankfurt school in exile
By: Thomas Wheatland.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9780816653676; 9780816653683
Subjects: Frankfurt school of sociology -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: New York transit : an invitation to Columbia University; title: Failure and the mythologies of exile : the Frankfurt school's years at Columbia University; title: John Dewey's pit bull : Sidney Hook and the confrontation between pragmatism and critical theory; title: Crosstown traffic : the New York intellectuals encounter critical theory; title: The Atlantic divide : building bridges between Anglo-American empiricism and continental social theory; title: Assimilation and acceptance : studies in prejudice; title: Specters of Marx : the Frankfurt school in the era of the new left; title: Marcuse's mentors : the American counterculture and the guru of the new left; title: Conclusion: The Frankfurt school's American legacy.