Martin Jay

Martin Jay is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is an intellectual historian whose research has included the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, social theory, cultural criticism, and historiography. His many books include most recently Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme (2004); The Virtues of Mendacity: On Lying in Politics (2010); Essays from the Edge: Parerga and Paralipomena (2011); and Reason after Its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory (2016).