Full Description
The core of this volume is its presentation of Lowenthal's sixty-year-long intellectual career as a critical theorist and sociologist. The book includes some of his speeches on Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin and presents excerpts from conversations on his life as a scholar and teacher, as managing editor of the Institute for Social Research's famous journal, as government servant during and immediately after the war, and as observer and critic of contemporary culture and politics. Together these selections present an intriguing biographical panorama of a major intellectual figure.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Part I German Jewish Intellectual Culture: Essays from the 1920s
Introduction
1 Moses Mendelssohn
2 Salomon Maimon
3 Heinrich Heine
4 Ferdinand Lassalle and Karl Marx
5 Hermann Cohen
6 Sigmund Freud
Part II Lectures (1978-1983)
7 Adorno and his Critics (1978)
8 Recollections of Theodor W. Adorno (1983)
9 Walter Benjamin: The Integrity of the Intellectual (1982)
10 Goethe and False Subjectivity (1982)
11 Caliban's Legacy (1983)
12 Sociology of Literature in Retrospect (1981)
Part III Correspondence
13 Correspondence of Leo Lowenthal with
Theodor W. Adorno
14 Correspondence of Leo Lowenthal with
Max Horkheimer
Part IV Conversations
15 Scholarly Biography: A Conversation with
Helmut Dubiel, 1979
16 "We Never Expected Such Fame":
A Conversation with Mathias Greffrath, 1979
Afterword
Helmut Dubiel
Name Index
