The Dialectical Imagination
Subtitle: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923–50
By: Martin Jay.
Series: An H.E.B. Paperback
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 1973
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780435824761
Copyright date: 1973
Subjects: Institut für Sozialforschung (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) -- History.; Social sciences -- Research -- United States.; Frankfurt school of sociology.
Other titles: Dialektische Phantasie
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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [355]-370.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword by Max Horkheimer
pagenum: xi; title: Introduction
pagenum: xiii; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xix; label: 1.
title: The Creation of the Institut fUr Sozialforschung and Its First Frankfurt Years
pagenum: 3; label: 2.
title: The Genesis of Critical Theory
pagenum: 41; label: 3.
title: The Integration of Psychoanalysis
pagenum: 86; label: 4.
title: The Institut’s First Studies of Authority
pagenum: 113; label: 5.
title: The Institut’s Analysis of Nazism
pagenum: 143; label: 6.
title: Aesthetic Theory and the Critique of Mass Culture
pagenum: 173; label: 7.
title: The Empirical Work of the Institut in the 1940’s
pagenum: 219; label: 8.
title: Toward a Philosophy of History: The Critique of the Enlightenment
pagenum: 253; title: Epilogue
pagenum: 281; title: Chapter References
pagenum: 303; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 355; title: Index
pagenum: 373