Author: Philipp Lenhard
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004704795
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
The son of an industrialist who wanted to abolish private property. A Jew who didn’t want anything to do with Judaism. A professor who published little. An economist who squandered his wealth on the stock market. A communist who thought Marxism was anachronistic. And finally: a critical intellectual. When dealing with the political culture of the Weimar Republic, the development of Critical Theory and German-Jewish emigration to the USA, there is no way around Friedrich Pollock. Max Horkheimer’s companion and the founder of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt plays an important part in German-Jewish intellectual history as one of the most prominent representatives of Critical Theory. The present volume presents the first biography of a major but overlooked figure.
Friedrich Pollock
Author: Philipp Lenhard
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004704795
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
The son of an industrialist who wanted to abolish private property. A Jew who didn’t want anything to do with Judaism. A professor who published little. An economist who squandered his wealth on the stock market. A communist who thought Marxism was anachronistic. And finally: a critical intellectual. When dealing with the political culture of the Weimar Republic, the development of Critical Theory and German-Jewish emigration to the USA, there is no way around Friedrich Pollock. Max Horkheimer’s companion and the founder of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt plays an important part in German-Jewish intellectual history as one of the most prominent representatives of Critical Theory. The present volume presents the first biography of a major but overlooked figure.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004704795
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
The son of an industrialist who wanted to abolish private property. A Jew who didn’t want anything to do with Judaism. A professor who published little. An economist who squandered his wealth on the stock market. A communist who thought Marxism was anachronistic. And finally: a critical intellectual. When dealing with the political culture of the Weimar Republic, the development of Critical Theory and German-Jewish emigration to the USA, there is no way around Friedrich Pollock. Max Horkheimer’s companion and the founder of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt plays an important part in German-Jewish intellectual history as one of the most prominent representatives of Critical Theory. The present volume presents the first biography of a major but overlooked figure.
Group Experiment and Other Writings
Author: Friedrich Pollock
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674048466
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
During the occupation of West Germany after the Second World War, the American authorities commissioned polls to assess the values and opinions of ordinary Germans. They concluded that the fascist attitudes of the Nazi era had weakened to a large degree. The author and his colleagues, who returned in 1949 from the United States, were skeptical. In their view, public opinion is not simply an aggregate of individually held opinions, but is fundamentally a public concept, formed through interaction in conversations and with prevailing attitudes and ideas "in the air." In this book, they published their findings on their group discussion experiments that delved deeper into the process of opinion formation.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674048466
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
During the occupation of West Germany after the Second World War, the American authorities commissioned polls to assess the values and opinions of ordinary Germans. They concluded that the fascist attitudes of the Nazi era had weakened to a large degree. The author and his colleagues, who returned in 1949 from the United States, were skeptical. In their view, public opinion is not simply an aggregate of individually held opinions, but is fundamentally a public concept, formed through interaction in conversations and with prevailing attitudes and ideas "in the air." In this book, they published their findings on their group discussion experiments that delved deeper into the process of opinion formation.
For Nonconformism: Max Horkheimer and Friedrich Pollock
Author: Nicola Emery
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004526056
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This book reconstructs the crucial moments in the friendship between Max Horkheimer and Friedrich Pollock and sheds a new light on the origins of the Frankfurt School.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004526056
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This book reconstructs the crucial moments in the friendship between Max Horkheimer and Friedrich Pollock and sheds a new light on the origins of the Frankfurt School.
Guilt and Defense
Author: Theodor W. Adorno
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674036031
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
In this series of interlocking essays, which had their start as lectures inspired by the presidency of Barack Obama, Robert Burns Stepto sets canonical works of African American literature in conversation with Obama's Dreams from My Father. The elegant readings that result shed surprising light on unexamined angles of works ranging from Frederick Douglass's Narrative to W.E.B. Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk to Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674036031
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
In this series of interlocking essays, which had their start as lectures inspired by the presidency of Barack Obama, Robert Burns Stepto sets canonical works of African American literature in conversation with Obama's Dreams from My Father. The elegant readings that result shed surprising light on unexamined angles of works ranging from Frederick Douglass's Narrative to W.E.B. Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk to Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon.
Reason After Its Eclipse
Author: Martin Jay
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 029930650X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Tackles a question as old as Plato and still pressing today: What is reason, and what roles does and should it have in human endeavor? The eminent intellectual historian Martin Jay surveys Western ideas of reason, particularly in German philosophy from Kant to Habermas.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 029930650X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Tackles a question as old as Plato and still pressing today: What is reason, and what roles does and should it have in human endeavor? The eminent intellectual historian Martin Jay surveys Western ideas of reason, particularly in German philosophy from Kant to Habermas.
The Frankfurt School in Exile
Author: Thomas Wheatland
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816653674
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Thomas Wheatland examines the influence of the Frankfurt School, or Horkheimer Circle, and how they influenced American social thought and postwar German sociology. He argues that, contrary to accepted belief, the members of the group, who fled oppression in Nazi Germany in 1934, had a major influence on postwar intellectual life.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816653674
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Thomas Wheatland examines the influence of the Frankfurt School, or Horkheimer Circle, and how they influenced American social thought and postwar German sociology. He argues that, contrary to accepted belief, the members of the group, who fled oppression in Nazi Germany in 1934, had a major influence on postwar intellectual life.
The Lost Debate
Author: William David Jones
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252067969
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Brings to light critiques of modern tyranny written by German socialist intellectuals before and during World War II about the definition, origins, nature, and means of overcoming totalitarianism.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252067969
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Brings to light critiques of modern tyranny written by German socialist intellectuals before and during World War II about the definition, origins, nature, and means of overcoming totalitarianism.
Frankfurt School
Author: J. M. Bernstein
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415058551
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Frankfurt School' refers to the members associated with the "Institut fur Sozialforschung (Institute for Social Research) " which was founded in Frankfurt in 1923. The work of this group is generally agreed to have been a landmark in twentieth century social science. It is of seminal importance in our understanding of culture, progress, politics, production, consumption and method. This set of six volumes provides a full picture of the School by examining the important developments that have occured since the deaths of the original core of Frankfurt scholars. All the major figures--Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Benjamin--are represented. In particular, the important post-war work of Jurgen Habermas is fully assessed. The collection also covers the work of many of the minor figures associated with the School who have been unfairly neglected in the past, resulting in the most complete survey and guide to the "oeuvre" of the Frankfurt School.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415058551
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Frankfurt School' refers to the members associated with the "Institut fur Sozialforschung (Institute for Social Research) " which was founded in Frankfurt in 1923. The work of this group is generally agreed to have been a landmark in twentieth century social science. It is of seminal importance in our understanding of culture, progress, politics, production, consumption and method. This set of six volumes provides a full picture of the School by examining the important developments that have occured since the deaths of the original core of Frankfurt scholars. All the major figures--Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Benjamin--are represented. In particular, the important post-war work of Jurgen Habermas is fully assessed. The collection also covers the work of many of the minor figures associated with the School who have been unfairly neglected in the past, resulting in the most complete survey and guide to the "oeuvre" of the Frankfurt School.
The Frankfurt School
Author: Rolf Wiggershaus
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262731133
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
The book is based on documentary and biographical materials that have only recently become available. As the narrative follows the Institute for Social Research from Frankfurt am Main to Geneva, New York, and Los Angeles, and then back to Frankfurt, Wiggershaus continually ties the evolution of the school to the changing intellectual and political contexts in which it operated.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262731133
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
The book is based on documentary and biographical materials that have only recently become available. As the narrative follows the Institute for Social Research from Frankfurt am Main to Geneva, New York, and Los Angeles, and then back to Frankfurt, Wiggershaus continually ties the evolution of the school to the changing intellectual and political contexts in which it operated.
The Dialectical Imagination
Author: Martin Jay
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520917510
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520917510
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
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.