Martin Jay

Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor

Contact

Office: 3321 Dwinelle Hall
Hours: Wednesday 3-4 and Friday 10-12
Phone: (510) 642-7218
Email: martjay@berkeley.edu

Education

Union College, B.A., summa cum laude, 1965
London School of Economics, Junior Year Abroad, 1963-64
Harvard University, Ph.D., 1971

Teaching Interests

European Intellectual History; Visual Culture; Critical Theory

Current Research

On Lying In Politics

Awards

Valedictorian, Union College, 1965
Phi Beta Kappa
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1965-66
Danforth Foundation Fellowship, 1966-71
Herbert Baxter Adams Award for 1973 (American Historical Association Award for best first book in European history)
Academy of Literary Studies, 1986
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, l996
Science Prize of the Aby Warburg Foundation, Hamburg, 2003

Employment and Teaching

Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, 1967-71
Academic Tutor, Black Community School, Columbia, South Carolina, 1967
Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley, 1971-76
Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley, 1976-82
Senior Associate Member, St. Antony's College, Oxford, 1974-75
Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley, 1982-
Collčge Internationale de Philosophie, Paris, Spring, 1985
School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College, Summer, 1986
Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge, January-June 1989
Non-resident Fellow, Humanities Research Institute, UC Irvine, Fall 1989
Mellon Professor, Summer Faculty Seminar, Tulane University, Summer 1990
Fellow of the Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California, Berkeley, 1991-92
School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, Summer 1998

Selected Publications

Books

The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-50 (Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1973); Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Turkish, Chinese, Indonesian and Serbo-Croation editions. Pirated Korean edition. Second English edition with new preface, University of California Press, l996.

Marxism and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from Lukács to Habermas, (Berkeley, University of California Press; 1984); Japanese edition.

Adorno (London, Fontana Modern Masters Series; Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1984); Italian, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish, Japanese, Turkish, and two Chinese editions (PRC and Taiwanese).

Permanent Exiles: Essays on the Intellectual Migration from Germany to America (New York, Columbia University Press, 1985) Japanese edition.

Fin-de-Siécle Socialism and Other Essays (New York, Routledge, 1988), Spanish edition, Japanese edition.

Force Fields: Between Intellectual History and Cultural Criticism (New York, Routledge, 1993); Japanese edition.

Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993); Korean edition forthcoming.

Cultural Semantics: Keywords of the Age (Amherst, Mass., U. of Massachusetts Press, 1998).

Refractions of Violence (New York, Routledge, 2003); Japanese edition.

Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2004); Polish edition forthcoming.

Edited Volumes

Festschrift for Leo Lowenthal, Telos, 45 (Fall, 1980).

An Unmastered Past: The Autobiographical Reflections of Leo Lowenthal (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987).

The Weimar Republic Sourcebook (with Anton Kaes and Edward Dimendberg) (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1994).

Vision in Context: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Sight (with Teresa Brennan) (New York, Routledge, 1996).

Fellowships Awarded Since Ph.D.

University of California Regents' Summer Faculty Fellowship, summer 1973.
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1974-75.
National Endowment for the Humanities, 1974-75 (not accepted).
American Council of Learned Societies, 1978-79 (not accepted).
National Endowment for the Humanities, 1979-80.
American Council of Learned Societies, 1984-85 (not accepted).
Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship, 1984-85.
Humanities Research Fellowship, U.C.B. - 1988.
American Council of Learned Societies, 1988-89.
Humanities Research Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1993-94
University of California President's Research
Fellowship in the Humanities, 1993-94
Stanford Humanities Center, 1997-98
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 2001-2002
National Humanities Center, North Carolina, 2005-2006

Editorial Boards

Theory and Society
Cultural Critique
Regular column for Salmagundi

Personal Information

Born: May 4, 1944, New York City
Marital Status: Married, one step-daughter, one daughter