Max Horkheimer A New Introduction

Name: Max Horkheimer A New Introduction
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ISBN: 9780389210009

ISBN-10: 0389210005

ISBN-13: 9780389210009

Edition: 1992

Authors: Peter M. Stirk

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This book offers an introduction to, and a new interpretation of, the thought of Max Horkheimer, a leading figure of the Frankfurt School. During the 1920s, Horkheimer formulated a history of bourgeois society which was to dominate his subsequent concerns and is essential to an understanding of Dialectic of Enlightenment. Underlying this history is a concern about the authoritarian trends which accompanied the economic and political crises of the inter-war period. Peter Stirk's new study illustrates how Horkheimer rejected most contemporary philosophies either implicated in, or impotent in the face of, these authoritarian trends. The result was his alternative approach to understanding the…

Book details

List price: $122.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/14/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The History of Bourgeois Society



Philosophy in an Authoritarian Age



The World Crisis, Interdisciplinary Research and Psychology



From the Critique of Political Economy to the Planned Society



Materialism and Epistemology



The Theory of Rackets



Dialectic of Enlightenment



Towards a Philosophy of Pity


Conclusion


Note on References and Abbreviations


Notes


Bibliography


Index