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Horkheimer

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/ ˈhɔrkhaɪmər /

noun

  1. Max. 1895–1973, German social theorist of the Frankfurt school. His books include Eclipse of Reason (1947) and Critical Theory (1968)

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Nor does he mention criticism of the Enlightenment from other sources, most notably "Dialectic of Enlightenment" by the Frankfurt School philosophers Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, who set out "to explain why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism."

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Frankfurt School philosopher Max Horkheimer famously wrote a critique of instrumental reason, in which Horkheimer argued that science could be co-opted if it was not consciously guided by those practicing it.

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One of this book’s epigrams is from Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno.

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Poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht, composer Hanns Eisler and philosopher Max Horkheimer had recently left the area.

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Second, Adorno, Horkheimer and Benjamin restricted to antisemitism what little discussion they devoted to racism.

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