Critical Theory

by Max Horkheimer

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These essays, written in the 1930s and 1940s, represent a first selection in English from the major work of the founder of the famous Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. Horkheimer's writings are essential to an understanding of the intellectual background of the New Left and the to much current social-philosophical thought, including the work of Herbert Marcuse. Apart from their historical significance and even from their scholarly eminence, these essays contain an immediate show more relevance only now becoming fully recognized. show less

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Max Horkheimer

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Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) was a philosopher and sociologist. He was a key member of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and famously collaborated with Theodor Adorno on the influential work The Dialectic of Enlightenment.

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Canonical title: Critical Theory
Original publication date: 1968

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Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Literature Studies and Criticism, Sociology
DDC/MDS: 193 — Philosophy & psychology Modern western philosophy Philosophy of Germany and Austria
LCC: B3279 .H8471 .S313 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Philosophy (General) By period Modern By region or country
BISAC: PHI PHILOSOPHY General

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