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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Joseph B. Maier's Life and Work: An Introduction -- Vico and Critical Theory -- Part 1: Biographical: Interviews and Personal Notes -- 1. From Leipzig to America: The Story of a Friendship -- 2. Joseph Maier: A Personal Reminiscence -- 3. Meeting Moses Finley and His Old Friend, Joseph Maier -- 4. The Fury of Historical Redemptionism: An Interview with Joseph B. Maier, September 30, 1982 -- 5. Joseph B. Maier: Reflections on His Career and Contribution to the University Seminars at Columbia -- Part 2: Social Science Inquiries into the Human Condition -- 6. Nationality, Citizenship, and Sociocultural Community -- 7. Politics and Problems of Collective Identity in France and Germany: A Comparative Analysis -- 8. Social Integration, National Identity, and German Unification -- 9. Ethnicity, Nationality, and Nationalism in Early Austrian-Hungarian Social Science -- 10. On Peter Blau's Interpretation of Simmel -- 11. Education and Society in Germany -- 12. The Scientific Status of Social Research: The Political Context of Contemporary Sociology -- 13. The "Ideal-Typical" Presentation of the Jewish Intellectual in Thomas Mann's Work -- 14. What Tocqueville Might Say About Our NEA -- 15. Twenty-Five Year History of the Club of Rome -- 16. Victimhood and Empowerment: Madonna's "Like a Prayer" -- 17. The Notion of the Personal and the Cult of Personality: Reflections on Television in Nigeria and North America -- 18. Frederick J. Teggart on "Entering California": Self-Reflections on Migrations, Religion, and the Humanistic Sciences -- 19. Existenzialistische Aufklärung. Anklänge der Leipziger Schule an die Kritische Theorie -- Part 3: On Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Intellectual Linkages -- 20. Philosophy, Literature, and Intellectual Responsibility

The editor of this book on sociologist Joseph B. Maier provides an overview of his life & work from his birth in 1911 & early education in Leipzig, Germany, migration to the US in 1933 & attainment of his PhD, association with the Frankfurt school, teaching positions, government work during WWII & the Nuremberg trials, & career as chair of the Sociology Dept at Rutgers U (Newark, NJ) from 1960 till his retirement in 1980. Both his personal & academic life histories are discussed within the context of the Holocaust & Maier's experiences as a German-Jewish refugee in New York City, noting his lifelong feelings for the German Bildung (cultural tradition). 1 Photograph. K. Hyatt Stewart

Briefly reviews the work of the German writer Thomas Mann in the context of his relationship with Georg Lukacs, particularly in terms of the former's focus on the German bourgeoisie (burgerliche). The consistency of artistic themes throughout Mann's literary career is noted, emphasizing his use of the "ideal-typical presentation," similar to Max Weber's notion of the "ideal type," though it is doubtful that Mann was familiar with Weber's work on this topic. Mann's development of the figure of the Jewish intellectual as the "quintessential stranger" or outsider is described, & its function in his portrayal of the bourgeoisie world is explored. Great similarity is found in Mann's analysis of Judaism, & characteristics of Jews as a "type" are compared to those of Georg Simmel. K. Hyatt Stewart

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: History and History of Ideas -- 1: Contribution to a Critique of Critical Theory -- 2: The Frankfurt School in New York -- 3: The Idea of Critical Theory -- 4: The Dialectical Imagination by Martin Jay -- Part Two: Philosophy -- 5: The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory -- 6: Critique of Reason from Max Weber to Jürgen Habermas -- 7: Irrationalism of the Left -- 8: Reason or Revolution? -- 9: The Frankfurt School: An Autobiographical Note -- Part Three: Aesthetics -- 10: On Walter Benjamin -- 11: Lukács and Horkheimer: The Place of Aesthetics in Horkheimer's Thought -- 12: Negative Philosophy of Music: Positive Results -- 13: Autonomy of Art: Looking Back at Adorno's Ästhetische Theorie -- Part Four: Sociology and Social Psychology -- 14: Critical Theory and Dialectics -- 15: The Struggle of Reason against Total Bureaucratization -- 16: The Positivist Dispute in Retrospect -- 17: The Uses of Psychoanalysis in Critical Theory and Structuralism -- 18: Partisan Truth: Knowledge and Social Classes in Critical Theory -- Part Five: Political Science and Political Economy -- 19: The Political Contradictions in Adorno's Critical Theory -- 20: The Anti-Semitism Studies of the Frankfurt School: The Failure of Critical Theory -- 21: Political Economy and Critical Theory -- Part Six: Marxism -- 22: The Frankfurt School -- 23: From Hegel to Marcuse -- 24: Understanding Marcuse -- 25: The Limits of Praxis in Critical Theory -- About the Contributors -- Index.