50 Years after Martin Jay's "The Dialectical Imagination"
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Origins of Western Marxism
Western Marxism was a self-generated distancing from the two traditions which were dominant in let's say the end of the Bohemian or end of the pre-war period and into the Weimar period. It understood that theory needed to be connected to practice but could never figure out a way exactly to make the connection. And it also had the capacity for self-critique that the more dogmatic versions of Marxism Leninism never had. But what's important to recognize is that it was not a radical break certainly in the early 1920s.
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