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The Frankfurt School knew Trump was coming - The New Yorker Virtuosic at critiquing the viciousness of fascism and capitalism's socially eviscerating, spiritually crushing impact on western societies. - Stuart Jeffries, Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School Reason is sick. Horkheimer made a magnificent diagnosis of this illness. - Wilson Decembre, Can reason save itself? A critical reading of Max Horkheimer's Eclipse of reason A profoundly suggestive diagnosis of the intellectual sickness of our day - Nature The ongoing international crisis of capitalism and liberal democracy has prompted a resurgence of interest in [the Frankfurt School's] body of work known as critical theory. - The New Yorker

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Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) was a leader of the 'Frankfurt School, ' a group of philosophers and social scientists associated with the Institute of Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany. 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 periods he would lead the Institute in exile, primarily in America. As a philosopher he is best known for his work during the 1940s, including Eclipse of Reason and Dialectic of Enlightenment (co-authored with Theodor Adorno). Horkheimer's work was largely responsible for developing the epistemological and methodological orientation of Frankfurt School critical theory. This work both influenced his contemporaries (including Adorno and Herbert Marcuse) and has had an enduring influence on critical theory's later practitioners.

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