The Frankfurt School in Exile

The Frankfurt School in Exile

About/SubjectFrankfurt School
PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press
Cover/Jacket Design byAriana Grabec-Dingman
Photography ArchiveNational Archives
Copyright HolderRegents of the University of Minnesota
Copyright Holder (Selection)Berghahn Journals
PermissionsLiterary Estate of Herbert Marcuse, Peter Marcuse
FormatHardback
LanguageEnglish
LocationMinneapolis, Minnesota; London, England
Copyright2009
Pages / Font415 pages
ISBN 13978-0-8166-5367-6
Library of Congress Classification Number2008040820
Library of Congress Call NumberHM467.W54 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification Number301.01—dc22
Printer's Key15 14 13 12 11 10 09
Printer's Key10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
ChaptersAcknowldgments - ix Preface: Critical Theory and the United States - xv Introduction: A Brief History of the Frankfurt School before Its Arrival in the United States - 1 Part I. Critical Theory on Morningside Heights 1. New York Transit: An Invitation to Columbia University - 35 2. Failure and the Mythologies of Exile: The Frankfurt School's Years at Columbia University - 61 Part II. The Owl of Minerva Comes to New York 3. John Dewey's Pit Bull: Sidney Hook and the Confrontation between Pragmatism and Critical Theory - 97 4. Crosstown Traffic: The New York Intellectuals Encounter Critical Theory - 140 Part III. Critical Theory and the Rise of Postwar Sociology 5. The Atlantic Divide: Building Bridges between Anglo-American Empiricism and Continental Social Theory - 191 6. Assimilation and Acceptance: Studies in Prejudice - 227 Part IV. Message in a Bottle 7. Specters of Marx: The Frankfurt School in the Era of the New Left - 267 8. Marcuse's Mentors: The American Counterculture and the Guru of the New Left - 296 Conclusion: The Frankfurt School's American Legacy - 335 Notes - 349 Index - 405
Notes"Cover art: U.S. National Archives" "Portions of chapters 1 and 2 were previously published as 'Critical Theory on Morningside Heights,' German Politics and Society 22, no. 3-4 (2004): 1-32, 57-87, copyright Berghahn Journals." "Excerpts from the letters of Herbert Marcuse appear in chapter 8 with permission of the Literary Estate of Herbert Marcuse, Peter Marcuse, Executor, whose permission is required for any further publication. Supplementary material from previously unpublished work of Herbert Marcuse, much now in the Archives of the Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main, is being published by Routledge Publishers, England, in a six-volume series edited by Douglas Kellner and in a German series edited by Peter-Erwin Jansen published by zu Klampen Verlag, Germany. All rights to further publication are retained by the Estate."
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