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Martin Jay

Martin Jay is a professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent work is Refractions of Violence.

Selected bibliography

  • Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme (2005)
  • Refractions of Violence (2003)
  • Cultural Semantics: Keywords of Our Time (1998)
  • Downcast Eyes: Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-century French Thought (1993)
  • Force Fields: Exercises in Cultural Criticism (1993)
  • Fin-de-Siécle Socialism and Other Essays (1988)
  • Permanent Exiles: Essays on the Intellectual Migration from Germany to America (1985)
  • Adorno (1984)
  • The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-50 (1973)

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content Against Solitude · 8 June 2006

  • Karl Jaspers, a Biography: Navigations in Truth by Suzanne Kirkbright  Buy this book

Speaking Azza · 28 November 2002

  • Situatedness; Or, Why We Keep Saying Where We’re Coming From by David Simpson

Mendacious Flowers · 29 July 1999

  • All too Human: A Political Education by George Stephanopoulos
  • No One Left to Lie to: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton by Christopher Hitchens

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive The Trouble with Nowhere · 1 June 2000

  • The End of Utopia: Politics and Culture in an Age of Apathy by Russell Jacoby
  • Utopias: Russian Modernist Texts 1905-40 edited by Catriona Kelly
  • The Faber Book of Utopias edited by John Carey
  • The Nazi War on Cancer by Robert Proctor