Download or read book The Dialectical Imagination written by Martin Jay and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-03-05 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Franz Neumann, Theodor Adorno, Leo Lowenthal—the impact of the Frankfurt School on the sociological, political, and cultural thought of the twentieth century has been profound. The Dialectical Imagination is a major history of this monumental cultural and intellectual enterprise during its early years in Germany and in the United States. Martin Jay has provided a substantial new preface for this edition, in which he reflects on the continuing relevance of the work of the Frankfurt School.