Martin Jay

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Martin Jay 2016 (left)

Martin Evan Jay (born May 4, 1944 in New York City ) is an American historian. He is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley . In German-speaking countries, Martin Jay is known for his work Dialectical Fantasy on the History of the Frankfurt School .

Jay received his bachelor's degree from Union College in Schenectady , New York, in 1965 , and his PhD from Harvard University in 1971 . The dissertation was incorporated into the later work Dialectical Fantasy . This work had a major impact on American views of the Frankfurt School.

In 2003 Jay was awarded the Aby Warburg Foundation Science Prize. In 2010/2011 he received the “Berlin Prize Fellowship” from the American Academy in Berlin . He has also been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1996 and of the American Philosophical Society since 2019 .

Martin Jay is married to the literary critic Catherine Gallagher. He has a daughter and a stepdaughter.

Works

  • 1973 The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-50
    • German: Dialectical fantasy. The history of the Frankfurt School and the Institute for Social Research 1923–1950. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 3-10-037101-1
  • “The Concept of Totality in Lukács and Adorno”. Telos 32 (Summer 1977). New York: Telos Press.
  • 1984 Marxism and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from Lukács to Habermas
  • 1984 Adorno . Fontana Modern Masters.
  • 1985 Permanent Exiles: Essays on the Intellectual Migration from Germany to America
  • 1988 Fin-de-Siècle Socialism and Other Essays
  • 1993 Force Fields: Between Intellectual History and Cultural Criticism
  • 1993 Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought
  • 1998 Cultural Semantics: Keywords of the Age
  • 2003 Refractions of Violence
  • 2004 Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme
  • 2010 The Virtues of Mendacity: On Lying in Politics
  • 2011 Essays from the Edge: Parerga and Paralipomena

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Martin Jay ( Memento from August 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Jay, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jay, Martin Evan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City