Preface to the 1996 Edition

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface to the 1996 Edition xi
4. Foreword xxv
5. Introduction xxvii
6. Acknowledgments xxxiii
7. THE DIALECTICAL IMAGINATION 1
8. I. The Creation of the Institut fur Sozialforschung and Its First Frankfurt Years 3
9. II. The Genesis of Critical Theory 41
10. III. The Integration of Psychoanalysis 86
11. IV. The Institut's First Studies of Authority 113
12. V. The Institutes Analysis of Nazism 143
13. IV. Aesthetic Theory and the Critique of Mass Culture 173
14. VII. The Empirical Work of the Institut in the 1940's 219
15. VIII. Toward a Philosophy of History: The Critique of the Enlightenment 253
16. Epilogue 281
17. Chapter References 303
18. Bibliography 355
19. Index 371