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American intellectual historian (born 1944)

Martin Jay
Jay in 2014
Born Martin Evan Jay (1944-05-04) May 4, 1944 (age 80)New York City, New York, US
Other names Martin E. Jay
Spouse Catherine Gallagher (m. c. 1973)
Academic background
Alma mater Union CollegeHarvard University
Thesis Frankfurt School[1] (1971)
Doctoral advisor H. Stuart Hughes
Academic work
Discipline History
Sub-discipline Intellectual history
Institutions University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral students Peter GordonDirk MosesSamuel Moyn
Main interests German intellectual historycritical theoryvisual culture
Notable works The Dialectical Imagination (1973)

Martin Evan Jay (born May 4, 1944) is an American intellectual historian whose research interests connected history with the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, social theory, cultural criticism, and historiography.

He is currently the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.

Jay received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Union College in 1965. In 1971, he completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree in history at Harvard University under the tutelage of H. Stuart Hughes. His dissertation was later revised into the book The Dialectical Imagination, which covers the history of the Frankfurt School from 1923 to 1950. While he was conducting research for his dissertation, he established a correspondence and friendship with many Frankfurt School members. Leo Löwenthal provided him access to personal letters and documents for his research. Jay's work since then has explored Marxism, socialism, historiography, cultural criticism, visual culture, and the place of post-structuralism and post-modernism in European intellectual history. His current research is focused on nominalism and photography. He is a recipient of the 2010/2011 Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin.[_citation needed_] In 2023, he published a sequel to The Dialectical Imagination on the contemporary turns in Critical Theory, entitled Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School Under Pressure.[2]

He also has a regular column in the quarterly journal Salmagundi.

Jay was born on May 4, 1944, in New York City.[3] He is Jewish.[4] He married English professor and literary critic Catherine Gallagher circa 1973; they met in 1970 at Berkeley when she was an English graduate student and he was an assistant professor of history.[5]

  1. ^ Jay, Martin (1971). Frankfurt School: An Intellectual History of the Institut für Sozialforschung, 1924–1950 (PhD thesis). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University. OCLC 24165892.
  2. ^ Martin Jay, Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School Under Pressure (London: Verso, 2023).
  3. ^ "Martin E. Jay". Department of History - University of California, Berkeley. University of California, Berkeley. Archived from the original on August 4, 2018. Retrieved November 15, 2016.
  4. ^ Jay, Martin (September 19, 2008). "Joseph Finkelstein". The New York Times. New York, New York. Retrieved November 15, 2016.
  5. ^ Rimer, Sara (September 30, 2003). "Universities Tighten Rules on Faculty–Student Relationships". The New York Times. Retrieved May 19, 2019.

Exiles + Emigres: The Flight of European Artists from Hitler, Museum Associates, LA Museum of Art 1997; “The German Migration:Is There a Figure in the Carpet?” Martin Jay, essay, page 326.