An Unmastered Past: the Autobiographical Reflections of Leo Lowenthal by Leo Lowenthal ISBN 13: 9780520056381

1987 University of California hardcover; light edgewear to dust jacket; writing inside back cover and last end paper; some marginal marks in text; good conditin

USA: University of California Press, 1987. pp. x, 281. Index. Black and white photographic plates. Leo Lowenthal (1900-1993) was "a founding member of the celebrated Frankfurt Institute of Social Research. As the last survivor of the Institute's inner circle, he was frequently approached for interviews and recollections of his former colleagues. In 1980 a wide-ranging selection of his conversations with Helmut Dubiel about his former colleagues was published in German. Now, for the first time in English, the complete record of those interviews is made available, along with Lowenthal's personal remembrances of such famous former colleagues as Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin. Provides insights into Lowenthal's remarkable intellectual career. Exiled in the United States during the Nazi period, he, like his close friend Herbert Marcuse, chose to remain in America rather than return to rebuild the Institute in postwar Frankfurt. His work on the sociology of literature and mass… Read more