Contents Preface to the 1996 Edition Foreword by Max Horkheimer Introduction XXVI Acknowledgments I. The Creation of the Institut fur Sozialforschung and Its first frankfurt Years /2. The Genesis of Critical Theory 4 3.The Integration of Psychoanalysis 4. The Institut's First Studies of Authority 5. The Iestitut's Analysis of Nazism 143 v6. Aesthetic Theory and the Critique of Mass Culture 173 7. The cal Work of the Institut in the 1940s Toward a Philosophy of History: The Critique of the Enlightenment 53 Chapter References 303 Index 373