Friedrich Pollock
Friedrich Pollock

Author: Philipp Lenhard

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-07-22

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 9004704795

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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
Group Experiment and Other Writings

Author: Friedrich Pollock

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2011-02-15

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0674048466

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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.

Guilt and Defense
Guilt and Defense

Author: Theodor W. Adorno

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2010-06-15

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780674036031

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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
Reason After Its Eclipse

Author: Martin Jay

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres

Published: 2016-04-21

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 029930650X

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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
The Frankfurt School in Exile

Author: Thomas Wheatland

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 0816653674

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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
The Lost Debate

Author: William David Jones

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780252067969

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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
Frankfurt School

Author: J. M. Bernstein

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780415058551

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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
The Frankfurt School

Author: Rolf Wiggershaus

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 804

ISBN-13: 9780262731133

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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.

Marxism and Totality
Marxism and Totality

Author: Martin Jay

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 596

ISBN-13: 9780520057425

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Totality has been an abiding concern from the first generation of Western Marxists, most notably Lukács, Korsch, Gramsci, and Bloch, through the second, exemplified by the Frankfurt School, Lefebvre, Goldmann, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Della Volpe, up to the most recent, typified by Althusser, Colletti, and Habermas. Yet no consensus has been reached concerning the term's multiple meanings—expressive, decentered, longitudinal, latitudinal, normative—or its implications for other theoretical and practical matters. By closely following the adventures of this troublesome but central concept, Marxism & Totality offers an unconventional account of the history of Western Marxism.