Critique of Instrumental Reason

by Max Horkheimer, Matthew O'Connell (Translator)

Overview

These essays, written between 1949 and 1967, focus on a single theme: the triumph in the twentieth century of the state-bureaucratic apparatus and ‘instrumental reason’ and the concomitant liquidation of the individual and the basic social institutions and relationships associated with the individual.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781680230
Publisher:	Verso Books
Publication date:	01/16/2013
Series:	Radical Thinkers
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Max Horkheimer (1895–1973) was a philosopher and sociologist.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii

1 The Concept of Man 1

2 Theism and Atheism 34

3 The Soul 51

4 Schopenhauer Today 63

5 The Future of Marriage 84

6 The German Jews 101

7 The Arrest of Eichmann 119

8 Feudal Lord, Customer, and Specialist 124

9 Threats to Freedom 136

Notes 159