Friedrich Pollock

The Éminence Grise of the Frankfurt School
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-50748-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 279 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

Reihe: Historical materialism book series

The son of an industrialist who wanted to abolish private property. A Jew who didn’t want anything to do with Judaism. A professor who published little. An economist who squandered his wealth on the stock market. A communist who thought Marxism was anachronistic. And finally: a critical intellectual.
When dealing with the political culture of the Weimar Republic, the development of Critical Theory and German-Jewish emigration to the USA, there is no way around Friedrich Pollock. Max Horkheimer’s companion and the founder of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt plays an important part in German-Jewish intellectual history as one of the most prominent representatives of Critical Theory. The present volume presents the first biography of a major but overlooked figure.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lenhard, Philipp

Weitere Mitwirkende

Fischer, Lars

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the English Edition

Prelude

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Origins

2 A Friend for Life

3 Failed Revolution

4 ‘Scientific’ Marxism

5 The Quest

6 Dusk

7 Practical Relief Work

8 Émigré

9 A New Order?

10 Dinner at the White House

11 Return?

12 New Old Germany

13 Automation

14 On Old Age

Epilogue

Chronology

Archives

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Philipp Lenhard, Dr. phil. (2014) and Habilitation (2022), Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, is DAAD Associate Professor of History and German at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published four monographs, including Café Marx: The Institute of Social Research from its Beginnings to the Frankfurt School (C.H. Beck, 2024; in German).