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Library of Congress Catalog Number: 84-8610
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Main entry under title:
Foundations of the Frankfurt School of Social Research.
Includes index.
1. Frankfurt school of sociologyAddresses, essays, lectures. 2. Frankfurt school of sociologyHistoryAddresses, essays, lectures.
I. Marcus, Judith. II. Tar, Zoltn.
HM24.F67851984301.0184-8610
ISBN 13: 978-0-87855-963-3 (pbk)
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Our greatest debt goes to Professor Joseph B. Maier, who advised and participated at every stage of this project. As its chairman, he invited Zoltn Tar to his Columbia University seminar on Content and Method and suggested the title for the talk: The Frankfurt School Revisited; thus the idea for the present volume was born. As the discussant of the ASA session on Critical Theory in 1980, he contributed further to a more correct evaluation of Frankfurt thought. Four of the papers presented at that session (Kreckel, Kurzweil, Lwy, and Heydebrand-Burris) are incorporated here. The editors also wish to thank Alice Maier, long-time secretary to Max Horkheimer and one of the executors of his estate, for generously sharing with us her recollection of her years with the institute and its director.
Most of the arguments set out in the Introduction were first presented in lectures and seminars given at various times in New York City (Columbia University and New School for Social Research) and at the universities of Munich and Zagreb. Grateful acknowledgment is given to teachers and students at these institutions, especially to Drs. Dirk Ksler and Helmut Dubiel in Munich and Ivan Kuvacic and Gajo Petrovic in Zagreb.
Thanks are due to Mrs. Hope McAloon for her prompt and careful technical assistance. At Transaction thanks are due to Dalia Buzin.
Needless to say that the chief responsibility lies with the editors for the selection, editing, and in many cases for the translation of the material, and with Zoltn Tar alone for the Introduction.
Judith Marcus
Zoltn Tar
The editors gratefully acknowledge the following authors, publishers, and publications for permission to use previously published material:
Joseph B. Maier, Contribution to a Critique of Critical Theory, The New Social Sciences, Baidya Nath Varma, ed. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1976), pp. 73101. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, Greenwood Press, a Division of Congressional Information Service, Inc.
Jrgen Habermas, The Frankfurt School in New York, Sddeutsche Zeitung (Munich, August 23, 1980), pp. 12. Translated by Judith Marcus. Translated and reprinted by permission of the author.
Alfred Schmidt, The Idea of Critical Theory, was originally published in Max Horkheimer, Kritische Theorie, vol. 2 (Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag, 1968), pp. 33358. Translatedby permission of the authorin an abridged form by Judith Marcus. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
Heinz Lubasz, Review Essay of Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, was first published in History and Theory, vol. xiv, no. 2 (1975):200212. Reprinted by permission of the author and of the copyright holder, Wesleyan University. Copyright 1975.
Leszek Kolakowski, The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory, is an excerpt from his book Main Currents of Marxism, vol. 3, translated by P.S. Falla (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978), pp. 35780, 395. Copyright 1978 by Oxford University Press. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press.
Michael Landmann, Critique of Reason from Max Weber to Jrgen Habermas, is reprinted from his book Alienatory Reason (Normal, Ill.: Applied Literature Press, 1978), pp. 10519, by permission of the author.
Arnold Knzli, Left Irrationalism, is an excerpt from his book Aufklrung und Dialektik (Freiburg: Verlag Rombach, 1971), pp. 12356. Translated by Zoltn Tar and Judith Marcus. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Karl R. Popper, Reason or Revolution? was first published in Archives Europennes de Sociologie 11 (1970):25262, and reprinted in Theodor W. Adorno et al., The Positivist Dispute in German Sociology (London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1976), pp. 288300. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Georg Lukcs, On Walter Benjamin, was originally published in his book sthetik (Neuwied-Berlin: Luchterhand, 1963), vol. 2, pp. 75966. Translated version first appeared in New Left Review 110 (July-August 1978):8388. Reprinted by permission of NLR.
Istvn Hermann, Lukcs and Horkheimer: The Place of Aesthetics in Horkheimers Thought, is taken from his book A szfinx rejtvnye (Budapest: Gondolat, 1973), pp. 15167. Translated by Judith Marcus. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Ferenc Fehr, Negative Philosophy of MusicPositive Results, New German Critique 4 (Winter 1975):99111. Reprinted by permission of NGC.
Peter Uwe Hohendahl, Autonomy of Art: Looking Back at Adornos Aesthetische Theorie, The German Quarterly 54 (March 1981): 13349. Reprinted by permission of GQ.
Paul F. Lazarsfeld, Critical Theory and Dialectics, is reprinted from his book Qualitative Analysis: Historical and Critical Essays (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1972), pp. 16880. This essay was originally published in Main Trends of Research in the Social and Human Sciences (Paris: Mouton, UNESCO, 1970), pp. 11117.
Franco Ferrarotti, The Struggle of Reason against Total Bureaucratization, is an excerpt from his book Il Pensiero Sociologico da Auguste Comte a Max Horkheimer (Milan: Mondadori, 1974). Translated by Judith Marcus. Reprinted and translated by permission of the author.
