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The formative years of the Frankfurt school (1923-1950) must be understood in the context of the failure of the European Wc movement to respond to crisis & inflation by revolt & revolution. Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, & their associates were Marxists, but they reconverted Marxism into a Left-Hegelian speculative philosophy of nature & culture. They replaced the empirical study of contemporary society by Kulturkritik: a critical elitist reflection on the culture of advanced industrial societies. AA.

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

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Series Editors' Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Modernism and the Frankfurt School -- 2 Walter Benjamin -- 3 Theodor Adorno -- 4 Herbert Marcuse -- 5 The New Wave: Modernism and Modernity in the Later Frankfurt School -- Index

This volume is a collection of essays by Richard Wolin, a leading political theorist and intellectual historian. It is the follow up to Wolin's two recent, widely acclaimed books: Heidegger's Children and The Seduction of Unreason. In those books, he explored the legacy of Martin Heidegger and his impact on some of his most influential and notable students. He dealt particularly with the effect that Heidegger's subsequent embrace of fascism and National Socialism had on these students. Delving further in his next book, Wolin explored the question of why philosophers