cover image The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950

The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950

Martin Jay. University of California Press, $24.95 (382pp) ISBN 978-0-520-20423-2

Berkeley Professor Jay's intellectual history covers the influential Frankfurt School, a group of German philosophers whose radical cultural criticism laid much of the groundwork for contemporary critical theory. (Mar.)