La «dialéctica de la Ilustración» expresa la conciencia de la densa complejidad de los procesos que dieron lugar a la Modernidad y que ahora están a punto de superarla sin llevar consigo hacia adelante sus momentos de verd...
«Eclipse of Reason», la obra de Max Horkheimer más conocida como «Crítica de la razón instrumental», título con el que apareció en su edición alemana, ha estado largo tiempo silenciada,...
Se recogen en este volumen los ensayos más relevantes de temática filosófica y sociológica publicados por Max Horkheimer entre 1954 y 1966, en la fase tardía de su pensamiento dominada por la lucidez y el pesimismo, pero...
Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) desarrolló un nuevo concepto de teoría social con intención emancipativo-práctica, que denominó «teoría crítica». Cuando en 1933 emigró a Estados Unidos, su...
Im Mittelpunkt des vierten und letzten Bandes des Briefwechsels zwischen Max Horkheimer und Theodor W. Adorno steht die gemeinsame Verantwortung für die Forschung und Lehre an der Frankfurter Universität und am Institut für Sozialforschung...
Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer wrote the central text of âcritical theoryâ, Dialectic of Enlightenment , a measured critique of the Enlightenment reason that, they argued, had resulted in fascism and totalitarianism....
Das Kapitel über die »Kulturindustrie« entstand wie die gesamte »Dialektik der Aufklärung« während des Zweiten Weltkrieges unter dem Eindruck der umfassenden politischen Katastrophe. Auch wenn das Kapitel auf der...
In his most important work, Max Horkheimer surveys and demonstrates the gradual ascendancy of Reason in Western philosophy, its eventual total application to all spheres of life, and what he considers its present reified domination. First published in...
2013 Reprint of 1947 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "Eclipse of Reason" discusses how the Nazis were able to project their agenda as "reasonable". It is broken into...
These essays, written between 1949 and 1967, focus on a single theme: the triumph in the twentieth century of the state-bureaucratic apparatus and âinstrumental reasonâ and the concomitant liquidation of the individual...
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt:. (6) Columns for Discount on...
Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had...
Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we...
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...