Main entry:

Wheatland, Thomas.

Title & Author:

The Frankfurt school in exile / Thomas Wheatland.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2009.

Description:

xxi, 415 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-403) and index.
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.

Summary:

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.

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ISBN:

9780816653676 (hc ; alk. paper)
0816653674 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780816653683 (pb ; alk. paper)
0816653682 (pb ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Frankfurt school of sociology History.
École de Francfort (Sociologie) Histoire.
71.05 sociological schools of thought.
Frankfurt school of sociology
Exil
Kritische Theorie
Frankfurter schule.
Exile.
Filosofi Förenta staterna 1900-talet.
Frankfurtskolan historia.
Tyska flyktingar Förenta staterna 1930-talet 1940-talet.
New York, NY
New York (city)

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 262147
Call No.: BIB 193208
Status: Available