The dialectical imagination : a history of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950.

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.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Though finding some flaws in the text, LJ's reviewer nonetheless dubbed this history of the Frankfort School and the Institute for Social Research a "coherent, judicious discussion of this controversial band of German Theorists." Libraries lacking such a volume should purchase this "lucid study" (LJ 1/1/73). (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.