The book contains a selection of revised papers written for the international conference "Critical Theories of Society and Culture in the United States and West Germany Since the 1960s: Influences, Convergences, and Divergences," organized by the Center for North American Studies and Research at Frankfurt University in June, 1984.
GUNTER H. LENZ (1940 2012) was one of the leading scholars of American Studies in Europe and one of the founders of Transnational American Studies. Trained in the famed Frankfurt School he was professor of American literary and cultural studies at Humboldt University in Berlin.