Max Horkheimer and the foundations of the Frankfurt School /
"This book provides an intellectual biography of Max Horkheimer during the early and middle phases of his life and analyzes his model of early Critical Theory"--
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Coming of age in Wilhelmine Germany
- 2. Student years in Frankfurt
- 3. A materialist interpretation of the history of modern philosophy
- 4. The beginnings of a critical theory of contemporary society
- 5. Horkheimer's integration of psychoanalysis into his theory of contemporary society
- 6. Horkheimer's concept of materialism in the early 1930s
- 7. The anthropology of the bourgeois epoch
- 8. Reflections on dialectical logic in the mid-1930s
- Excursus I. The theoretical foundations of Horkheimer's split with Erich Fromm in the late 1930s: Fromm's critique of Freud's drive theory
- Excursus II. Divergence, estrangement, and gradual rapprochement: the evolution of Horkheimer and Adorno's theoretical relationship in the 1930s
- 9. State capitalism - the end of Horkheimer's early critical theory
- Epilogue: toward a historicization of Dialectic of Enlightenment and a reconsideration of Horkheimer's early critical theory.