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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. A
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Paperback, 312 pages
Published
November 1st 1975
by Bloomsbury Academic
(first published 1968)
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Collection of Frankfurt essays, fairly standard.
Lengthy meditation on ‘authority and the family,’ which is reminiscent of Marcuse’s similar offering on the one hand and later Althusser's ‘family’ ISA. Critiques otherwise of positivism, pragmatism, lebensphilosophie.
Key bit is ‘Traditional and Critical Theory,’ laying out a series of distinctions between them. The former is involved with “the establishment of a connection between those elements of an event which are significant for historical c ...more
Lengthy meditation on ‘authority and the family,’ which is reminiscent of Marcuse’s similar offering on the one hand and later Althusser's ‘family’ ISA. Critiques otherwise of positivism, pragmatism, lebensphilosophie.
Key bit is ‘Traditional and Critical Theory,’ laying out a series of distinctions between them. The former is involved with “the establishment of a connection between those elements of an event which are significant for historical c ...more
ترجمة متعبة جدًا. أو يمكن هوركهايمر ثقيل دم
"El pensamiento que este espíritu aspira a alcanzar, la situación racional, se fundamenta en la penuria del presente. Pero con esta penuria no está dada todavía la imagen de su eliminación. La teoría que desarrolla dicha imagen no trabaja al servicio de la realidad ya existente; se limita a pronunciar su secreto."
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Excelente ensayo y texto fundacional de la teoría crítica, donde busca distinguirse el quehacer teórico y científico no crítico del propiamente crítico. El énfasis en la racionalidad y emancipación permite trazar nexos hoy con continuaciones contemporáneas de la Ilustración y del aceleracionismo.
The cornerstone of the most invigorating strain of 20th century though.
Skipped "Art and Mass Culture" and "Authority and the Family" since I didn't need to read them for the class I am auditing.
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The bona fides culure critique Adbusters aspires to, but fails miserably at.
This collection was released long after the more seminal works of the Frankfurt School, but these essays should be seen as no less foundational to the group's crowning achievement: critical theory.
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Max Horkheimer (1895–1973) was a leader of the so-called “Frankfurt School,” a group of philosophers and social scientists associated with the Institut für Sozialforschung (Institute of Social Research) in Frankfurt am Main. Horkheimer was the director of the Institute and Professor of Social Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt from 1930–1933, and again from 1949–1958. In between those perio
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