[FRA:] THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL IN EXILE

[James Rovira]

Persuasive and pioneering research on the influence of German
intellectuals on postwar American thought.

THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL IN EXILE
Thomas Wheatland
University of Minnesota Press | 440 pages | 2009
ISBN 978-0-8166-5367-6 | hardcover | $39.95

Although much has been written about the Frankfurt School, this is the
first book to closely examine the relationship between its members and
their American contemporaries. The Frankfurt School in Exile uncovers
an important but neglected dimension of the history of the Frankfurt
School and adds immeasurably to our understanding of the contributions
made by its émigré intellectuals to postwar intellectual life.

"The Frankfurt School played a major role in the vast intellectual
migration to the United States, yet most accounts focus largely on its
prewar and postwar activity in Europe, much less on the important
years of its American exile. With exemplary clarity and illuminating
research, Thomas Wheatland's book fills in some missing chapters in
this institutional as well as intellectual history, including the
Frankfurt School's crucial sojourn at Columbia University, its
relationships with the wider world of the New York intellectuals, and
its impact on the New Left. He also stresses the influence of these
American years on the Frankfurt critics themselves. This is a
momentous, valuable, and highly informative book."-Morris Dickstein

"No one has made the case that there is such a profound resonance
between the Frankfurt School and the New York Intellectual scene with
the detail and depth that Wheatland applies to the topic. There really
isn't another book in the same ballpark."-David Jenemann

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