We discuss The Irishman and the Frankfurt School’s theory of the “racket society” with Martin Jay. Martin Jay is Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his works are The Dialectical Imagination (1973 and 1996); Marxism and Totality (1984); Adorno (1984); Permanent Exiles (1985); Fin-de-Siècle Socialism (1989); Force Fields (1993): Downcast Eyes (1993); Cultural Semantics (1998); Refractions of Violence (2003); La Crisis de la experiencia en la era postsubjetiva, ed. Eduardo Sabrovsky (2003); Songs of Experience (2004); The Virtues of Mendacity: On Lying In Politics (2010), Essays from the Edge (2011), Kracauer: l’Exilé (2014) and Reason After its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory (2016). Verso will publish Splinters in Your Eye: Frankfurt School Provocations in July.
