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Friedrich Pollock
The Éminence Grise of the Frankfurt School
Series: - Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume: 324
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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.
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.
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).
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
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
Anyone who is interested in Critical Theory, the History of Marxism and (neo-)Marxist theory, German-Jewish history, German and American Intellectual History.