Martin Jay
Martin Jay | |
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Jay in 2014 | |
| Born | Martin Evan Jay May 4, 1944 New York City, New York, US |
| Spouse | Catherine Gallagher (m. c. 1973) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | Frankfurt School (1971) |
| Doctoral advisor | H. Stuart Hughes |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | Intellectual history |
| School or tradition | Critical theory |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral students | |
| Main interests | |
| Notable works | The Dialectical Imagination (1973) |
Martin Evan Jay (born May 4, 1944) is an American intellectual historian whose research interests connected history with Frankfurt School critical theory, social theory, cultural criticism, and historiography.
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.