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First edition. |
| Description |
xxi, 382 pages ; 25 cm |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Max Horkheimer -- The creation of the Institut für Sozialforschung and its first Frankfurt years -- The genesis of critical theory -- The integration of psychoanalysis -- The Institut's first studies of authority -- The Institut's analysis of Nazism -- Aesthetic theory and the critique of mass culture -- The empirical work of the Institut in the 1940's -- Toward a philosophy of history : the critique of the Enlightenment. |
| Awards |
American Historical Association Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, 1973. |
| Summary |
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. -- Amazon.com. |
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Institut für Sozialforschung (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) -- History.
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Social sciences -- Research -- United States.
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Frankfurt school of sociology.
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Institut für Sozialforschung (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (OCoLC)fst00548007
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Frankfurt school of sociology (OCoLC)fst00933734
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Social sciences -- Research (OCoLC)fst01122944
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
History (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Horkheimer, Max, 1895-1973, writer of foreword.
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| Added Title |
History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950 |
| ISBN |
0316460494 |
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9780316460491 |
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