Martin Jay
American historian and professor / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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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) |
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Thesis | Frankfurt School[1] (1971) |
Doctoral advisor | H. Stuart Hughes |
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Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | Intellectual history |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
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Notable works | The Dialectical Imagination (1973) |
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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.