Abstract

A comprehensive history of the Frankfurt School was long overdue. When did the "School” start? Who financed it? Who ran it? What was its program? How did it develop? Who collaborated in it? What was its theoretical orientation? How was it that it moved to New York during the war, practically relocated the majority of leading German intellectuals in the U.S., only to disappear back to the Old World in the 50s? Martin Jay tries to answer all these queries (with the exception of the last one), and he has come up with a brilliant piece of intellectual history that no one interested in these questions can afford to overlook.