The core of this volume is its presentation of Lowenthal's sixty-year-long intellectual career as a critical theorist and sociologist. The book includes some of his speeches on Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin and presents excerpts from conversations on his life as a scholar and teacher, as managing editor of the Institute for Social Research's famous journal, as government servant during and immediately after the war, and as observer and critic of contemporary culture and politics. Together these selections present an intriguing biographical panorama of a major intellectual figure.
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The core of this volume is its presentation of Lowenthal's sixty-year-long intellectual career as a critical theorist and sociologist
AcknowledgmentsPart I German Jewish Intellectual Culture: Essays from the 1920sIntroduction1 Moses Mendelssohn2 Salomon Maimon3 Heinrich Heine4 Ferdinand Lassalle and Karl Marx5 Hermann Cohen6 Sigmund FreudPart II Lectures (1978–1983)7 Adorno and his Critics (1978)8 Recollections of Theodor W. Adorno (1983)9 Walter Benjamin: The Integrity of the Intellectual (1982)10 Goethe and False Subjectivity (1982)11 Caliban's Legacy (1983)12 Sociology of Literature in Retrospect (1981)Part III Correspondence13 Correspondence of Leo Lowenthal with Theodor W. Adorno14 Correspondence of Leo Lowenthal with Max HorkheimerPart IV Conversations15 Scholarly Biography: A Conversation with Helmut Dubiel, 197916 "We Never Expected Such Fame": A Conversation with Mathias Greffrath, 1979Afterword Helmut DubielName Index
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ISBN
9781412857024
Publisert
2015-12-30
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Routledge
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362 gr
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229 mm
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152 mm
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U, G, 05, 01
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Engelsk
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Heftet
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300

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Leo Lowenthal (1900-1993) was a sociologist known for his association with the Frankfurt School. After migrating to the United States, he held various positions, including research director for Voice of America, the Stanford Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavior Sciences, and finally settled in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.