b. 1944
Martin Jay (born 1944) is an American intellectual historian and cultural critic, best known for his work on the Frankfurt School and Western Marxism. He has spent much of his career at UC Berkeley, producing influential studies on critical theory, vision, and the history of ideas in modern European thought.
Authored The Dialectical Imagination (1973), the foundational English-language history of the Frankfurt School
Developed influential critiques of ocularcentrism in Downcast Eyes (1993)
Contributed to debates on experience, memory, and the limits of historical understanding
Advanced reception of Adorno, Horkheimer, and Western Marxism in Anglophone scholarship