The Frankfurt school in exile /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wheatland, Thomas
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • New York transit : an invitation to Columbia University
  • Failure and the mythologies of exile : the Frankfurt school's years at Columbia University
  • John Dewey's pit bull : Sidney Hook and the confrontation between pragmatism and critical theory
  • Crosstown traffic : the New York intellectuals encounter critical theory
  • The Atlantic divide : building bridges between Anglo-American empiricism and continental social theory
  • Assimilation and acceptance : studies in prejudice
  • Specters of Marx : the Frankfurt school in the era of the new left
  • Marcuse's mentors : the American counterculture and the guru of the new left
  • Conclusion: The Frankfurt school's American legacy.