@article{Abromeit, author = {Abromeit, John}, title = {Critical Theory and Primary Source Research: Subjective Reflections on Working in the Herbert Marcuse and Max Horkheimer Archives}, series = {Aubert, I., Nobre, M. (Eds.): The Archives of Critical Theory, Cham (Springer) 2023, pp. 225-250. [Online ISBN 978-3-031-36585-0] [doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36585-0_16]}, journal = {Aubert, I., Nobre, M. (Eds.): The Archives of Critical Theory, Cham (Springer) 2023, pp. 225-250. [Online ISBN 978-3-031-36585-0] [doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36585-0_16]}, abstract = {Historians, including intellectual historians such as myself, rely more on primary source research than philosophers. During the period 1992-2001, I conducted extensive research on both the Herbert Marcuse and Max Horkheimer Archives in Frankfurt, Germany. This essay describes my experiences working in these archives. I highlight, in particular, some of the most important discoveries I made in the archives and how the primary source documents shaped my understanding of Herbert Marcuse and Max Horkheimer's crucial contributions to the development of Critical Theory. The essay also emphasizes the value of primary source research, especially for those working in the materialist tradition of the early Frankfurt School, which emphasizes the >Zeitkern der Wahrheit<, that is, the impossibility of separating ideas from a historically specific social context.}, language = {en} } @article{Abromeit, author = {Abromeit, John}, title = {Whiteness as a Form of Bourgeois Anthropology? Historical Materialism and Psychoanalysis in the Work of David Roediger, Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse}, series = {Radical Philosophy Review, Vol. 16, No. 1 (2013), pp. 325-343. [Online ISSN 1569-1659] [doi.org/10.5840/radphilrev201316126]}, journal = {Radical Philosophy Review, Vol. 16, No. 1 (2013), pp. 325-343. [Online ISSN 1569-1659] [doi.org/10.5840/radphilrev201316126]}, abstract = {In his path-breaking analysis of the formation of an ideological >white< self-consciousness among American workers in the nineteenth century, David Roediger relies on a theoretical synthesis of historical materialism and psychoanalysis. This paper explores the parallels in methodology and content between Roediger's work and the critical theory of Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse, which was also based on a synthesis of Marx and Freud. The paper seeks to place Roediger's arguments in a broader theoretical context and to highlight the ongoing relevance of early Frankfurt School critical theory to contemporary discussions in critical race theory.}, language = {en} } @misc{Abromeit, author = {Abromeit, John}, title = {Review Friedman, L. J.: The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love's Prophet}, series = {The American Historical Review, Vol. 119 (No. 3, 2014), pp. 846-847.}, journal = {The American Historical Review, Vol. 119 (No. 3, 2014), pp. 846-847.}, language = {en} } @article{Abromeit, author = {Abromeit, John}, title = {The Origins and Development of the Model of the Early Critical Theory in the Work of Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse}, series = {Ingram, D. (Ed.): Critical Theory to Structuralism: Philosophy, Politics and the Human Sciences (The History of Continental Philosophy, Vol. 5), New York (Routledge) 2014, pp. 47-80.}, journal = {Ingram, D. (Ed.): Critical Theory to Structuralism: Philosophy, Politics and the Human Sciences (The History of Continental Philosophy, Vol. 5), New York (Routledge) 2014, pp. 47-80.}, language = {en} } @article{Abromeit, author = {Abromeit, John}, title = {Excursus I - The Theoretical Foundations of Horkheimer's Split with Erich Fromm in the Late 1930s}, series = {Max Horkheimer and the Foundations of the Frankfurt School, Cambridge et al. (Cambridge University Press) 2011, pp. 336-348.}, journal = {Max Horkheimer and the Foundations of the Frankfurt School, Cambridge et al. (Cambridge University Press) 2011, pp. 336-348.}, language = {en} } @article{Abromeit, author = {Abromeit, John}, title = {The Beginnings of Fromm's Analytic Social Psychology and His Theoretical Elective Afi nity with Horkheimer}, series = {Max Horkheimer and the Foundations of the Frankfurt School, Cambridge et al. (Cambridge University Press) 2011, pp. 201-211.}, journal = {Max Horkheimer and the Foundations of the Frankfurt School, Cambridge et al. (Cambridge University Press) 2011, pp. 201-211.}, language = {en} } @book{Abromeit, author = {Abromeit, John}, title = {Max Horkheimer and the Foundations of the Frankfurt School, Cambridge et al. (Cambridge University Press) 2011, 457 pp.}, language = {en} }