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
I started thinking about “Dialectic of Enlightenment,” the 1947 philosophical treatise by Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno that pretty much launched the field now known as “cultural studies.”
From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2019
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
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