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'''Max Horkheimer''' (February 14, 1895 – July 7, 1973) was a Jewish-German philosopher and sociologist, a leading thinker of the [[Frankfurt School]]/[[critical theory]]. Horkheimer was critical to classical and [[Marxism|Marx-Leninist]] interpretation of [[Marxism]] that: economic determinism based upon historical materialism; primary role of workers for revolution; the special role of communist party. Adopting a theory of [[alienation]] and [[reification]] in Marx’s Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, Horkheimer interpreted Marxism as a [[critical theory]], whose purpose was to emancipate false-consciousness of alienated and reified man and enlighten man as the subject of history. Horkheimer became a director of the Institute for Social Research (1930-41; 1950-58) at the University of Frankfurt, took “interdisciplinary materialism” as its project which applied Marxism to social, cultural, economic, historical, and psychoanalytic studies.
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'''Max Horkheimer''' (February 14, 1895 – July 7, 1973) was a Jewish-German [[philosophy|philosopher]] and [[sociology|sociologist]], a leading thinker of the [[Frankfurt School]]/[[critical theory]]. Horkheimer was critical to classical and [[Marxism|Marx-Leninist]] interpretation of Marxism that: economic determinism based upon historical materialism; primary role of workers for revolution; the special role of communist party. Adopting a theory of [[alienation]] and [[reification]] in Marx’s Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, Horkheimer interpreted Marxism as a critical theory, whose purpose was to emancipate false-consciousness of alienated and reified man and enlighten man as the subject of history. Horkheimer became a director of the Institute for Social Research (1930-41; 1950-58) at the University of Frankfurt, took “interdisciplinary materialism” as its project which applied Marxism to social, cultural, economic, historical, and psychoanalytic studies.
 
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Horkheimer co-authored ''Dialectic of Enlightenment'' with [[Adorno]], and extended his analysis to the criticism of the western civilization. Horkheimer found the barbarism of [[Nazism]] and [[Stalin|Stalinism]], and capitalist interests driven American [[mass culture]] as the necessary outcomes of the idea of Enlightenemt, a central idea in western civilization. The work was colored with a pessimistic tone. In his late years, Horkheimer inclined into [[Pessimism|pessimistic]] philosophy of [[Schopenhauer]].  
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Horkheimer co-authored ''Dialectic of Enlightenment'' with [[Adorno]], and extended his analysis to the criticism of the western civilization. Horkheimer found the barbarism of [[Nazism]] and [[Stalin|Stalinism]], and capitalist interests driven American [[mass culture]] as the necessary outcomes of the idea of Enlightenemt, a central idea in western civilization. The work was colored with a pessimistic tone. In his late years, Horkheimer inclined into [[Pessimism|pessimistic]] philosophy of [[Schopenhauer]].  
  
 
==Biography==
 
==Biography==
Horkheimer was born on February 14, 1895 in [[Stuttgart]] to an assimilated Jewish family, the son of Moses Horkheimer. Due to parental pressure, he did not initially pursue an academic career, leaving secondary school at the age of sixteen to work in his father's factory. After [[World War I]], however, he enrolled at Munich University, where he studied [[philosophy]] and [[psychology]]. He subsequently moved to [[Frankfurt am Main]], where he studied under Hans Cornelius. There he met [[Theodor Adorno]], many years his junior, with whom he would strike a lasting friendship and a fruitful collaborative relationship.
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Horkheimer was born on February 14, 1895, in [[Stuttgart]] to an assimilated [[Jew]]ish family, the son of Moses Horkheimer. Due to parental pressure, he did not initially pursue an academic career, leaving secondary school at the age of sixteen to work in his father's factory. After [[World War I]], however, he enrolled at [[Munich University]], where he studied [[philosophy]] and [[psychology]]. He subsequently moved to [[Frankfurt am Main]], where he studied under Hans Cornelius. There he met [[Theodor Adorno]], many years his junior, with whom he would strike a lasting friendship and a fruitful collaborative relationship.
  
 
In 1925 he was [[habilitation|habilitated]] with a dissertation entitled ''Kant's Critique of Judgement as Mediation between Practical and Theoretical Philosophy'' (Über Kants Kritik der Urteilskraft als Bindeglied zwischen theoretischer und praktischer Philosophie) written under Cornelius. He was appointed ''Privatdozent'' the following year. When the Institute for Social Research's directorship became vacant in 1930, he was elected to the position. The following year publication of the Institute's ''Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung'' (Journal for Social Research) began, with Horkheimer as its editor.
 
In 1925 he was [[habilitation|habilitated]] with a dissertation entitled ''Kant's Critique of Judgement as Mediation between Practical and Theoretical Philosophy'' (Über Kants Kritik der Urteilskraft als Bindeglied zwischen theoretischer und praktischer Philosophie) written under Cornelius. He was appointed ''Privatdozent'' the following year. When the Institute for Social Research's directorship became vacant in 1930, he was elected to the position. The following year publication of the Institute's ''Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung'' (Journal for Social Research) began, with Horkheimer as its editor.
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==Philosophy ==
 
==Philosophy ==
In 1923, Carl Grungberg was invited from University of Vienna to the Institute for Social Research at University of Frankfurt and he became the director of the institution. Grunberg identified the aim of institution with developing [[Marxism|Marxist-Leninint]] interpretation of Marxism: Marxism as scientific theory in the sense that social historical development is determined by economic condition; the rise of communist society and the end of capitalism were causally determined by the laws of history; workers played the key role for communist revolution.
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In 1923, Carl Grungberg was invited from the University of Vienna to the Institute for Social Research at University of Frankfurt and he became the director of the institution. Grunberg identified the aim of institution with developing [[Marxism|Marxist-Leninint]] interpretation of Marxism: Marxism as scientific theory in the sense that social historical development is determined by economic condition; the rise of communist society and the end of capitalism were causally determined by the laws of history; workers played the key role for communist revolution.
  
Horkheimer was critical to this classical interpretation of Marxism held by Carl Grunberg. Horkeheimer interpreted Marxism as the critical theory and attempted to integrate Marxism with social, cultural, historical, economic, and cultural theories. He characterized the idea of Marxist studies at the institute as “interdisciplinary materialism,” and became a major theorist of “[[Critical theory]].” He conducted dialogues from Marxist perspective with social and human sciences through institute journal. Under the leadership of Horkheimer, multifaced program was created and drew collaboration of a number of scholars, who were called Frankfurt School. They adopted ideas of [[Hegel]], [[Marx]], [[Freud]], [[Max Weber]], and [[Georg Lukacs]].
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Horkheimer was critical to this classical interpretation of Marxism held by Carl Grunberg. Horkeheimer interpreted Marxism as the critical theory and attempted to integrate Marxism with social, cultural, historical, economic, and cultural theories. He characterized the idea of Marxist studies at the institute as “interdisciplinary materialism,” and became a major theorist of “[[Critical theory]].” He conducted dialogues from Marxist perspective with social and human sciences through institute journal. Under the leadership of Horkheimer, a multifaceted program was created and drew collaboration of a number of scholars, who were called the Frankfurt School. They adopted ideas of [[Hegel]], [[Marx]], [[Freud]], [[Max Weber]], and [[Georg Lukacs]].
  
Classical Marxism viewed arts as a reflection of class consciousness determined by social economic structures. Horkmeimer, on the contrary, understood high cultures and pure arts as an autonomous realm where utopian thought and emancipatory powers are preserved. Horkheimer, however, was critical to American [[mass culture]] which he saw the products of manipulation by mass production and mass consumption in market economy.  
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Classical Marxism viewed arts as a reflection of class consciousness determined by social economic structures. Horkmeimer, on the contrary, understood high cultures and pure arts as an autonomous realm where utopian thought and emancipatory powers are preserved. Horkheimer, however, was critical to American [[mass culture]] which he saw the products of manipulation by mass production and mass consumption in market economy.  
  
 
===''Eclipse of Reason''===
 
===''Eclipse of Reason''===
In ''Eclipse of Reason'' (1946), Horkheimer presented: a process of how Enlightenment rationality degenerated into instrumental rationality which was a calculation of means to the ends to achieve self interests; rationality, which was supposed to be objective in the sense of having communal and interpersonal basis, became instruments to serve for achieving   “subjective” self-interests.  
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In ''Eclipse of Reason'' (1946), Horkheimer presented a process of how Enlightenment rationality degenerated into instrumental rationality which was a calculation of means to the ends to achieve self interests; rationality, which was supposed to be objective in the sense of having communal and interpersonal basis, became instruments to serve for achieving “subjective” self-interests.  
  
Domination of instrumental reason effected, Horkheimer argued, in all aspects of life and culture, resulted in “reification” of human life. The reification means transformation of human relations and human affairs into thing like relations and events, and [[Georg Lukács]] developed this idea within the framework of Marxism. Capitalist transformation of human relations and affairs into “commodities” is a typical example of reification.  
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Domination of instrumental reason effected, Horkheimer argued, in all aspects of life and culture, resulted in “reification” of human life. The reification means transformation of human relations and human affairs into things like relations and events, and [[Georg Lukács]] developed this idea within the framework of Marxism. Capitalist transformation of human relations and affairs into “commodities” is a typical example of reification.  
  
Horkheimer called instrumental rationality “subjective reason” and carried out extensive criticism on this central notion of Enlightenment. Horkeheimer, however, did not present any alternative to the concept of rationality.    
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Horkheimer called instrumental rationality “subjective reason” and carried out extensive criticism on this central notion of Enlightenment. Horkeheimer, however, did not present any alternative to the concept of rationality.
  
 
===''Dialectic of Enlightenment''===
 
===''Dialectic of Enlightenment''===
In ''Dialectic of Enlightenment'' (1947) (see [[Adorno]] article), which Horkheimer co-authored with [[Adorno]], he extended his social cultural criticism to western civilization. He wrote this work in California while he was in exile. His question was why and how terror of [[Nazi]] and [[Stalin]]ist mass murder arose from [[modernity]]. Againist the popular view that those barbarianism was opposite to the idea of [[Enlightenment]], he argued that barbarianism, terror, and irrational elements were inherent to Enlightenment. In the work, Horkheimer explained the process and the reason of how and why the Enlightenment rationality, supposed to be the key factor of liberation and freedom, became instrumental rationality and brought about suppression of individuals, cultural poverty, and barbarism.  
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In ''Dialectic of Enlightenment'' (1947) (see [[Adorno]] article), which Horkheimer co-authored with Adorno, he extended his social cultural criticism to western civilization. He wrote this work in California while he was in exile. His question was why and how the terror of [[Nazi]] and [[Stalin]]ist mass murder arose from [[modernity]]. Against the popular view that barbarianism was opposite to the idea of [[Enlightenment]], he argued that barbarianism, terror, and irrational elements were inherent to Enlightenment. In the work, Horkheimer explained the process and the reason of how and why the Enlightenment rationality, supposed to be the key factor of liberation and freedom, became instrumental rationality and brought about suppression of individuals, cultural poverty, and barbarism.  
  
In ''Dialectic of Enlightenment'', Horkmeimer lost hope for the project he initiated in 1930s. After this work, he turned his attention to [[Pessimism]] of [[Schopenhauer]] which he studied at early stage of his carrier.
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In ''Dialectic of Enlightenment'', Horkmeimer lost hope for the project he initiated in 1930s. After this work, he turned his attention to [[Pessimism]] of [[Schopenhauer]] which he studied at the early stage of his carrier.
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
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===Primary sources in English===
 
===Primary sources in English===
 
*Horkheimer, M. 1972. ''Bemerkungen zur Religion''. Frankfurt: Fisher Verlag.  
 
*Horkheimer, M. 1972. ''Bemerkungen zur Religion''. Frankfurt: Fisher Verlag.  
*-----. 1982. ''Critical Theory''. New York: Seabury Press.  
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*Horkheimer, M. 1982. ''Critical Theory''. New York: Seabury Press.  
*-----. 1987. ''Eclipse of Reason''. Boston: Beacon Press.  
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*Horkheimer, M. 1987. ''Eclipse of Reason''. Boston: Beacon Press.  
*-----. 1993. ''Between Philosophy and Social Science''. Cambridge: MIT Press.  
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*Horkheimer, M. 1993. ''Between Philosophy and Social Science''. Cambridge: MIT Press.  
 
*Horkheimer, M and T.W. Adorno. 1972. ''Dialectic of Enlightenment''. New York: Seabury.
 
*Horkheimer, M and T.W. Adorno. 1972. ''Dialectic of Enlightenment''. New York: Seabury.
  
 
===Secondary sources in English===
 
===Secondary sources in English===
*Always, Joan 1995 Critical Theory and Political Possibilities: Conceptions of Emancipatory Politics in the Works of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Habermas (Contributions in Sociology) Greenwood Press
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*Always, Joan. 1995. ''Critical Theory and Political Possibilities: Conceptions of Emancipatory Politics in the Works of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Habermas (Contributions in Sociology)''. Greenwood Press.
* Benhabib, Seyla. 1995 On Max Horkheimer: New Perspectives (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) The MIT Press
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* Benhabib, Seyla. 1995. ''On Max Horkheimer: New Perspectives (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)''. The MIT Press.
 
*Bohman, J. 2002. “Critical Theory as Practical Knowledge.” Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 91-109. Edited by Paul Roth and Stephen Turner. London: Blackwell.  
 
*Bohman, J. 2002. “Critical Theory as Practical Knowledge.” Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 91-109. Edited by Paul Roth and Stephen Turner. London: Blackwell.  
*Geuss, R.. 1981. The Idea of a Critical Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  
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*Geuss, R. 1981. ''The Idea of a Critical Theory''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  
*Giddens, A. 1999. Consequences of Modernity. Stanford: Stanford University Press.  
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*Giddens, A. 1999. ''Consequences of Modernity''. Stanford: Stanford University Press.  
*Jay, M. 1984. Marxism and Totality. Berkeley: University of California Press.  
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*Jay, M. 1984. ''Marxism and Totality''. Berkeley: University of California Press.  
*Longino, H. 1990. Science as Social Knowledge. Princeton: Princeton University Press.  
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*Longino, H. 1990. ''Science as Social Knowledge''. Princeton: Princeton University Press.  
*Michael R. Ott 2001, Max Horkheimer's Critical Theory of Religion: The Meaning of Religion in the Struggle for Human Emancipation University Press of America  
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*Michael R. Ott. 2001. ''Max Horkheimer's Critical Theory of Religion: The Meaning of Religion in the Struggle for Human Emancipation''. University Press of America.
  
 
== External links ==
 
== External links ==
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All links retrieved November 8, 2022.
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*[http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/horkheimer/index.htm Max Horkheimer Internet Archive] contains complete texts of ''Enlightenment as Mass Deception'' (1944), ''Theism and Atheism'' (1963) and ''Feudal Lord, Customer, and Specialist'' (1964).
 
*[http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/horkheimer/index.htm Max Horkheimer Internet Archive] contains complete texts of ''Enlightenment as Mass Deception'' (1944), ''Theism and Atheism'' (1963) and ''Feudal Lord, Customer, and Specialist'' (1964).
*[http://www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/english/history.htm Institute for Social Research]
 
*[http://home.cwru.edu/~ngb2/Authors/Horkheimer.html Short Description of ''Eclipse of Reason'']
 
*[http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/horkheimer/index.htm Max Horkheimer Archives]
 
*[http://home.freeuk.net/lemmaesthetics/ Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844]
 
  
 
===General Philosophy Sources===
 
===General Philosophy Sources===
 
*[http://plato.stanford.edu/ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
 
*[http://plato.stanford.edu/ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
 
*[http://www.iep.utm.edu/ The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
 
*[http://www.iep.utm.edu/ The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
*[http://www.epistemelinks.com/  Philosophy Sources on Internet EpistemeLinks]
 
*[http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/gpi/index.htm Guide to Philosophy on the Internet]
 
 
*[http://www.bu.edu/wcp/PaidArch.html Paideia Project Online]
 
*[http://www.bu.edu/wcp/PaidArch.html Paideia Project Online]
 
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ Project Gutenberg]  
 
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ Project Gutenberg]  
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Max Horkheimer (front left), Theodor Adorno (front right), and Jürgen Habermas in the background, right, in 1965 at Heidelberg

Max Horkheimer (February 14, 1895 – July 7, 1973) was a Jewish-German philosopher and sociologist, a leading thinker of the Frankfurt School/critical theory. Horkheimer was critical to classical and Marx-Leninist interpretation of Marxism that: economic determinism based upon historical materialism; primary role of workers for revolution; the special role of communist party. Adopting a theory of alienation and reification in Marx’s Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, Horkheimer interpreted Marxism as a critical theory, whose purpose was to emancipate false-consciousness of alienated and reified man and enlighten man as the subject of history. Horkheimer became a director of the Institute for Social Research (1930-41; 1950-58) at the University of Frankfurt, took “interdisciplinary materialism” as its project which applied Marxism to social, cultural, economic, historical, and psychoanalytic studies.

Horkheimer co-authored Dialectic of Enlightenment with Adorno, and extended his analysis to the criticism of the western civilization. Horkheimer found the barbarism of Nazism and Stalinism, and capitalist interests driven American mass culture as the necessary outcomes of the idea of Enlightenemt, a central idea in western civilization. The work was colored with a pessimistic tone. In his late years, Horkheimer inclined into pessimistic philosophy of Schopenhauer.

Biography

Horkheimer was born on February 14, 1895, in Stuttgart to an assimilated Jewish family, the son of Moses Horkheimer. Due to parental pressure, he did not initially pursue an academic career, leaving secondary school at the age of sixteen to work in his father's factory. After World War I, however, he enrolled at Munich University, where he studied philosophy and psychology. He subsequently moved to Frankfurt am Main, where he studied under Hans Cornelius. There he met Theodor Adorno, many years his junior, with whom he would strike a lasting friendship and a fruitful collaborative relationship.

In 1925 he was habilitated with a dissertation entitled Kant's Critique of Judgement as Mediation between Practical and Theoretical Philosophy (Über Kants Kritik der Urteilskraft als Bindeglied zwischen theoretischer und praktischer Philosophie) written under Cornelius. He was appointed Privatdozent the following year. When the Institute for Social Research's directorship became vacant in 1930, he was elected to the position. The following year publication of the Institute's Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung (Journal for Social Research) began, with Horkheimer as its editor.

In 1933 his venia legendi (the right to teach) was revoked by the new Nazi government, and the Institute closed. Horkheimer emigrated to Switzerland, from where he would leave for the USA the following year, where Columbia University hosted the Institute in exile.

In 1940 Horkheimer received American citizenship and moved to Pacific Palisades, California, where his collaboration with Adorno would yield the Dialectic of Enlightenment. Unlike Adorno, Horkheimer was never a prolific writer and in the following twenty years he published little, although he continued to edit Studies in Philosophy and Social Science as a continuation of the Zeitschrift. In 1949 he returned to Frankfurt, where the Institute reopened in 1950. Between 1951 and 1953 Horkheimer was rector of the University of Frankfurt.

He returned to America from 1954 and 1959 to lecture at the University of Chicago. He retired in 1955. He remained an important figure until his death in Nuremberg in 1973.

Philosophy

In 1923, Carl Grungberg was invited from the University of Vienna to the Institute for Social Research at University of Frankfurt and he became the director of the institution. Grunberg identified the aim of institution with developing Marxist-Leninint interpretation of Marxism: Marxism as scientific theory in the sense that social historical development is determined by economic condition; the rise of communist society and the end of capitalism were causally determined by the laws of history; workers played the key role for communist revolution.

Horkheimer was critical to this classical interpretation of Marxism held by Carl Grunberg. Horkeheimer interpreted Marxism as the critical theory and attempted to integrate Marxism with social, cultural, historical, economic, and cultural theories. He characterized the idea of Marxist studies at the institute as “interdisciplinary materialism,” and became a major theorist of “Critical theory.” He conducted dialogues from Marxist perspective with social and human sciences through institute journal. Under the leadership of Horkheimer, a multifaceted program was created and drew collaboration of a number of scholars, who were called the Frankfurt School. They adopted ideas of Hegel, Marx, Freud, Max Weber, and Georg Lukacs.

Classical Marxism viewed arts as a reflection of class consciousness determined by social economic structures. Horkmeimer, on the contrary, understood high cultures and pure arts as an autonomous realm where utopian thought and emancipatory powers are preserved. Horkheimer, however, was critical to American mass culture which he saw the products of manipulation by mass production and mass consumption in market economy.

Eclipse of Reason

In Eclipse of Reason (1946), Horkheimer presented a process of how Enlightenment rationality degenerated into instrumental rationality which was a calculation of means to the ends to achieve self interests; rationality, which was supposed to be objective in the sense of having communal and interpersonal basis, became instruments to serve for achieving “subjective” self-interests.

Domination of instrumental reason effected, Horkheimer argued, in all aspects of life and culture, resulted in “reification” of human life. The reification means transformation of human relations and human affairs into things like relations and events, and Georg Lukács developed this idea within the framework of Marxism. Capitalist transformation of human relations and affairs into “commodities” is a typical example of reification.

Horkheimer called instrumental rationality “subjective reason” and carried out extensive criticism on this central notion of Enlightenment. Horkeheimer, however, did not present any alternative to the concept of rationality.

Dialectic of Enlightenment

In Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947) (see Adorno article), which Horkheimer co-authored with Adorno, he extended his social cultural criticism to western civilization. He wrote this work in California while he was in exile. His question was why and how the terror of Nazi and Stalinist mass murder arose from modernity. Against the popular view that barbarianism was opposite to the idea of Enlightenment, he argued that barbarianism, terror, and irrational elements were inherent to Enlightenment. In the work, Horkheimer explained the process and the reason of how and why the Enlightenment rationality, supposed to be the key factor of liberation and freedom, became instrumental rationality and brought about suppression of individuals, cultural poverty, and barbarism.

In Dialectic of Enlightenment, Horkmeimer lost hope for the project he initiated in 1930s. After this work, he turned his attention to Pessimism of Schopenhauer which he studied at the early stage of his carrier.

References
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  • Authority and the Family (1936)
  • Traditional and Critical Theory (1937)
  • Critique of Instrumental Reason (1967)
  • Dawn & Decline
  • Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947) - with Theodor Adorno
  • Eclipse of Reason (1947)
  • Egoism and the Freedom Movement
  • The Authoritarian State
  • The Longing for the Totally Other

Primary sources in English

  • Horkheimer, M. 1972. Bemerkungen zur Religion. Frankfurt: Fisher Verlag.
  • Horkheimer, M. 1982. Critical Theory. New York: Seabury Press.
  • Horkheimer, M. 1987. Eclipse of Reason. Boston: Beacon Press.
  • Horkheimer, M. 1993. Between Philosophy and Social Science. Cambridge: MIT Press.
  • Horkheimer, M and T.W. Adorno. 1972. Dialectic of Enlightenment. New York: Seabury.

Secondary sources in English

  • Always, Joan. 1995. Critical Theory and Political Possibilities: Conceptions of Emancipatory Politics in the Works of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Habermas (Contributions in Sociology). Greenwood Press.
  • Benhabib, Seyla. 1995. On Max Horkheimer: New Perspectives (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought). The MIT Press.
  • Bohman, J. 2002. “Critical Theory as Practical Knowledge.” Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 91-109. Edited by Paul Roth and Stephen Turner. London: Blackwell.
  • Geuss, R. 1981. The Idea of a Critical Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Giddens, A. 1999. Consequences of Modernity. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
  • Jay, M. 1984. Marxism and Totality. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Longino, H. 1990. Science as Social Knowledge. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Michael R. Ott. 2001. Max Horkheimer's Critical Theory of Religion: The Meaning of Religion in the Struggle for Human Emancipation. University Press of America.

External links

All links retrieved November 8, 2022.

  • Max Horkheimer Internet Archive contains complete texts of Enlightenment as Mass Deception (1944), Theism and Atheism (1963) and Feudal Lord, Customer, and Specialist (1964).

General Philosophy Sources

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