1st Edition

Critical Theory and Frankfurt Theorists Lectures-Correspondence-Conversations

Edited By Leo Lowenthal Copyright 1989
    300 Pages
    by Routledge

    302 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Acknowledgments

    Part I German Jewish Intellectual Culture: Essays from the 1920s

    Introduction

    1 Moses Mendelssohn
    2 Salomon Maimon
    3 Heinrich Heine
    4 Ferdinand Lassalle and Karl Marx
    5 Hermann Cohen
    6 Sigmund Freud

    Part 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 Correspondence

    13 Correspondence of Leo Lowenthal with
    Theodor W. Adorno
    14 Correspondence of Leo Lowenthal with
    Max Horkheimer

    Part IV Conversations

    15 Scholarly Biography: A Conversation with
    Helmut Dubiel, 1979
    16 "We Never Expected Such Fame":
    A Conversation with Mathias Greffrath, 1979

    Afterword
    Helmut Dubiel

    Name Index

    Biography

    Leo Lowenthal