Critique of Instrumental Reason
by Max Horkheimer
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These essays, written between 1949 and 1967, focus on a single theme: the triumph in the twentieth century of the state-bureaucratic apparatus and 'instrumental reason' and the concomitant liquidation of the individual and the basic social institutions and relationships associated with the individual.Tags
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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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Radical Thinkers (74 - Set 7(2))
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