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The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-50
The Dialectical Imagination A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research 1923-50 Author:Martin Jay Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Franz Neumann, Theodor Adorno, Leo Lowenthal, Friedrich Pollock -- the impact of the Institute for Social Research on the sociological, political and cultural thought of the 20th century has been profound. In America alone, the Institute's analysis of our society has proved remarkably prophe... more »tic, and its attempt, particularly thru Herbert Marcuse, to redefine political radicalism has revolutionized contemporary politics. Under its auspices an astonishing variety of subjects has been studied, from law in Western society to horoscope columns, from Stravinsky to China, from jazz to the sado-masochistic character.
The Dialectical Imagination is a major history of this monumental cultural & intellectual enterprise during its early years in Germany and the USA. With grace, clarity and impressive knowledge, Martin Jay traces the genesis of the Institute and its philosophy and examines the life and work of the extraordinary collection of persons who served as its members.« less