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50 Years after Martin Jay's "The Dialectical Imagination"

New Books in Critical Theory

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The Importance of Synoptical Content Analysis in the 1980s

In the 1980s your book was cited in Dominica Laka Priest's essays Resinking Intellectual History and Reading Tips as an example of what he called Synoptical Content Analyze. Despite his underestimating attitude, his description of your proof seemed fitting to me. Your work was certainly comprehensive in the 1970s but if someone today is still writing a scissors claiming that what may I mean is a underestimated figure I might share Laka Priest’s dissatisfaction. You also mentioned in the preface to your second edition that certain political investors revealed were impatient with the energetic tongue of your book. For all these years do you still hold to your approach and the standpoint as any criticism of your book truly

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