1996 edition with new preface
The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923–1950
Martin Jay
1973 · Book
Editions
1996 edition with new preface
Notes from Frankfurt School: Institute for Social Research
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The German documents below were checked in their published documentary editions. English quotations from Erfolgreiche Kooperation use our October 17, 2026 research translations, checked against the German and separately reviewed by AI. These are not a published English edition. The underlying archival manuscripts were not inspected.
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Sources
The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923–1950 . Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 1996 edition, “Preface to the 1996 Edition,” opening paragraph and the paragraph on publication in 1973. Jay's testimony about his own research. No inference of ideological adoption from historical research alone.