The Two Jacobys: Contradiction, Ironies and Challenges in New Left Critical Social Psychology

Authors

  • Neil McLaughlin McMaster University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1234/fa.v0i72.200

Keywords:

psychoanalysis, Fromm, Marcuse, Jacoby

Abstract

Russell Jacoby is one of the most influential intellectuals who came out of the New Left engagement with critical theory in America.  Yet little has been written on Jacoby’s career and writings as a whole and scholars, critical theorists and psychoanalysts have not confronted what I will argue here is a major contradiction in his thought between the early Frankfurt School influenced Jacoby and the public intellectual Jacoby of his later years.

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Published

2018-06-22

How to Cite

McLaughlin, N. (2018). The Two Jacobys: Contradiction, Ironies and Challenges in New Left Critical Social Psychology. Free Associations, (72), 21–46. https://doi.org/10.1234/fa.v0i72.200

Issue

No. 72 (2018)

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