Martin Jay
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
- Literature by and about Martin Jay in the catalog of the German National Library
- Martin Jay's Faculty Page
- An Interview with Martin Jay on the topic of Consumption
- History, Experience, and Politics: An Interview with Martin Jay (PDF; 1.2 MB) -
Footnotes
- ↑ Martin Jay ( Memento from August 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data | |
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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 |