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A history of the Frankfurt School and its impact during its early years in Germany and the United States. This edition includes a new preface which reflects on the continuing relevance of the work of the Frankfurt School.

Table of Contents
Preface to the 1996 Edition
Foreword by Max Horkheimer
Introduction
Acknowledgments
I. The Creation of the Institut fUr Sozialforschung and
Its First Frankfurt Years
2. The Genesis of Critical Theory
3· The Integration of Psychoanalysis
4. The Institut's First Studies of Authority
5. The Institut's Analysis of Nazism
6. Aesthetic Theory and the Critique of Mass Culture
7· The Empirical Work of the Institut in the 1940's
8. Toward a Philosophy of History: The Critique of the
Enlightenment
Epilogue
Chapter References
Bibliography
Index

The Dialectical Imagination

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 5 March 1996
      ISBN-13 9780520204232
      978-0520204232
      ISBN-10 0520204239
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A history of the Frankfurt School and its impact during its early years in Germany and the United States. This edition includes a new preface which reflects on the continuing relevance of the work of the Frankfurt School.

      Table of Contents
      Preface to the 1996 Edition
      Foreword by Max Horkheimer
      Introduction
      Acknowledgments
      I. The Creation of the Institut fUr Sozialforschung and
      Its First Frankfurt Years
      2. The Genesis of Critical Theory
      3· The Integration of Psychoanalysis
      4. The Institut's First Studies of Authority
      5. The Institut's Analysis of Nazism
      6. Aesthetic Theory and the Critique of Mass Culture
      7· The Empirical Work of the Institut in the 1940's
      8. Toward a Philosophy of History: The Critique of the
      Enlightenment
      Epilogue
      Chapter References
      Bibliography
      Index

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