Horkheimer
Britishnoun
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Along with Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, he became a leading exponent of the Frankfurt School.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
Horkheimer and others criticized Kant and Enlightenment philosophy as abstract, irrelevant, or in the worst case, enabling the oppression that occurred since Kant’s time.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
Poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht, composer Hanns Eisler and philosopher Max Horkheimer had recently left the area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2022
The German philosopher Max Horkheimer wrote in 1947, “It is as if the innumerable laws, regulations and directions with which we must comply were driving the car, not we.”
From Nature ● Jul. 14, 2019
Beginning as early as 1946, thinkers like Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno have warned of the imbrication of entertainment with disciplinary social control in the form of the “culture industry.”
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2013
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