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The Dialectical Imagination
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Speculative PhilosophyPhilosophy Of LanguageHumanitiesFirst-person NarrativeGerman Cultural StudiesEducationCognitive PragmaticGerman HistoryRhetoricDiscourse AnalysisDialectical ImaginationNew YorkFrankfurt SchoolComprehensive HistoryLanguage StudiesEducation PolicyIntellectual HistoryPhilosophy Of Mind
A comprehensive history of the Frankfurt School has long been overdue. Martin Jay provides a brilliant account of the Frankfurt School’s wartime relocation to New York and its postwar return to Europe, addressing most key questions. The work addresses foundational questions about the Frankfurt School’s origins, funding, leadership, program, development, collaborations, and theoretical orientation.
Abstract A comprehensive history of the Frankfurt School was long overdue. When did the "School” start? Who financed it? Who ran it? What was its program? How did it develop? Who collaborated in it? What was its theoretical orientation? How was it that it moved to New York during the war, practically relocated the majority of leading German intellectuals in the U.S., only to disappear back to the Old World in the 50s? Martin Jay tries to answer all these queries (with the exception of the last one), and he has come up with a brilliant piece of intellectual history that no one interested in these questions can afford to overlook.