Critique of Instrumental Reason

Max Horkheimer

Book 0 of Radical Thinkers 07

Language: English

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: Sep 24, 2014

Words: 50275
Flesch: 52.7

Description:

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.