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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814840303321

Autore

Jay Martin <1944->

Titolo

The dialectical imagination : a history of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950 / / Martin Jay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 1996, 1973

ISBN

1-280-08014-0

9786613520227

0-520-91751-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (382 pages)

Collana

Weimar and now ; ; 10

Disciplina

300/.720434164

Soggetti

Social sciences - Research - United States

Frankfurt school of sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Originally published: Little, Brown. 1973.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface to the 1996 Edition -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- THE DIALECTICAL IMAGINATION -- I. The Creation of the Institut fur Sozialforschung and Its First Frankfurt Years -- II. The Genesis of Critical Theory -- III. The Integration of Psychoanalysis -- IV. The Institut's First Studies of Authority -- V. The Institutes Analysis of Nazism -- IV. Aesthetic Theory and the Critique of Mass Culture -- VII. The Empirical Work of the Institut in the 1940's -- VIII. Toward a Philosophy of History: The Critique of the Enlightenment -- Epilogue -- Chapter References -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.