The dialectical imagination : a history of the Frankfurt School a

Contents: The creation of the Institut für Sozialforschung and its first Frankfurt years; The genesis of critical theory; the integration of Psychoanalysis; The Institut´s firststudies of authority; the Institut´s analysis of nazism; Aesthetic theory and the critique of mass culture; The empirical work of the Institut in the 1940´s; Toward a philosophy of history: the critique of the Enlightment.