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Eclipse of Reason by Max Horkheimer
Booksplease Price: $31.73In his most important work, Max Horkheimer surveys and demonstrates the gradual ascendancy of Reason in Western philosophy, its eventual total application to all spheres of life, and what he... -
Critical Theory by Max Horkheimer 9780826400833
Booksplease Price: $105.10These essays, written in the 1930s and 1940s, represent a first selection in English from the major work of the founder of the famous Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. Horkheimer's writings... -
Critique of Instrumental Reason by Max Horkheimer
Booksplease Price: $22.70These 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... -
Eclipse of Reason by Max Horkheimer 9781773238807
RRP: $8.97Booksplease Price: $8.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773238807Author Max HorkheimerFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must... -
Dialectic of Enlightenment by Max Horkheimer 9780804736336
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $24.24Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a... -
Dialectic of Enlightenment by Max Horkheimer 9780804736329
RRP: $123.84Booksplease Price: $99.83Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a... -
Max Horkheimer and the Foundations of the Frankfurt School by John Abromeit
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $42.91This book is the first comprehensive intellectual biography of Max Horkheimer during the early and middle phases of his life (1895-1941). Drawing on unexamined new sources, John Abromeit describes... -
Max Horkheimer and the Foundations of the Frankfurt School by John Abromeit 9781107006959
RRP: $76.11Booksplease Price: $73.81This book is the first comprehensive intellectual biography of Max Horkheimer during the early and middle phases of his life (1895-1941). Drawing on unexamined new sources, John Abromeit describes... -
On the Relevance of Max Horkheimer: Introduction to His Work Gerhard Schweppenhäuser 9783658474119
Booksplease Price: $74.94The book provides a comprehensive and knowledgeable introduction to the work of Max Horkheimer and contributes to the updating of his theoretical approaches.About the AuthorDr. Gerhard... -
For Nonconformism: Max Horkheimer and Friedrich Pollock: History and Critique of the Social Movement in the World Market by Nicola Emery 9781642599978
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $27.83Subject of numerous interpretations and studies, the vicissitudes of the famous Frankfurt Institute for Social Research nevertheless still contain some little-known sagas. One of these less discussed... -
Between Philosophy and Social Science: Selected Early Writings by Max Horkheimer 9780262581424
Booksplease Price: $59.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262581424Author Max HorkheimerFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Modernity and Philosophy in Max Horkheimer: On the Contemporary Relevance of Critical Theory Raffaele Carbone 9781807070311
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $104.49This book shows that Max Horkheimer’s program of critical theory and his research are rooted in the cogency of philosophical questions and an in-depth knowledge of the historical development of... -
The Frankfurt School: The Critical Theories of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno Zoltan Tarr 9781412818346
RRP: $67.07Booksplease Price: $59.97The Frankfurt School refers to a school of neo-Marxist interdisciplinary social theory particular established at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt, Germany in 1923... -
Theodor Adorno and the Century of Negative Identity by Eric Oberle
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.92Identity has become a central feature of national conversations: identity politics and identity crises are the order of the day. We celebrate identity when it comes to personal freedom and group... -
Max Horkheimer's Critical Theory of Religion: The Meaning of Religion in the Struggle for Human Emancipation by Michael R. Ott 9780761821212
Booksplease Price: $73.09Over the past thirty years much has been written about the critical theory of society that was produced by a small group of left-wing Hegelians in the Institute of Social Research in Frankfurt am... -
The Politics of Reason: A Postfoundational Appraoch Gavin Rae 9781399552561
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $115.84While Western political theory has traditionally affirmed the importance of pure reason, this has recently come under attack from a variety of directions, including from those who question its... -
Autonomy After Auschwitz: Adorno, German Idealism, and Modernity by Martin Shuster 9780226155487
Booksplease Price: $59.75Ever since Kant and Hegel, the notion of autonomy - the idea that we are beholden to no law except one we impose upon ourselves - has been considered the truest philosophical expression of human... -
The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950 by Martin Jay
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $29.37Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Franz Neumann, Theodor Adorno, Leo Lowenthal--the impact of the Frankfurt School on the sociological, political, and cultural thought of the twentieth... -
Modern German Thought from Kant to Habermas - An Annotated German-Language Reader by Henk de Berg
Booksplease Price: $43.24The first book that presents key original texts from the modern German philosophical tradition to English-language students and scholars of German, with introductions, commentaries, and annotations... -
The Arts of Democratization: Styling Political Sensibilities in Postwar West Germany by Jennifer M. Kapczynski 9780472132911
Booksplease Price: $81.98Scholars of democracy long looked to the Federal Republic of Germany as a notable "success story," a model for how to transition from a violent, authoritarian regime to a peaceable nation of rights... -
Radical Natural Law: The Critical Standpoint of Animals and Nature Professor Josephine Donovan 9781350563032
Booksplease Price: $111.49Eschewing anthropocentric framings, Radical Natural Law proposes a reconception of natural law that locates it in the critical standpoints of animals and other life forms in the natural world... -
A Philosophy of Pain by Arne Vetlesen
Booksplease Price: $35.60'Living involves being exposed to pain every second not necessarily as an insistent reality, but always as a possibility', writes Arne Johan Vetlesen in "A Philosophy of Pain", a thought-provoking... -
Law and Violence: Christoph Menke in Dialogue by Christoph Menke
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.21Christoph Menke is a third-generation Frankfurt School theorist, and widely acknowledged as one of the most interesting philosophers in Germany today. His lead essay focuses on the fundamental... -
Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans: Critical Theories of Decolonization Nikita Dhawan 9781478032939
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.53In Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans, Nikita Dhawan puts the critical project of decolonization into conversation with the Enlightenment. She explores the ethical-political challenges... -
Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans: Critical Theories of Decolonization Nikita Dhawan 9781478029458
RRP: $108.36Booksplease Price: $88.13In Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans, Nikita Dhawan puts the critical project of decolonization into conversation with the Enlightenment. She explores the ethical-political challenges... -
Towards a New Manifesto by Theodor Adorno
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.71Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer wrote the central text of "critical theory", Dialectic of Enlightenment, a measured critique of the Enlightenment reason that, they argued, had resulted in fascism... -
Dialectic of Enlightenment by Theodor Adorno
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.07Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer are the leading figures of the Frankfurt School and this book is their magnum opus. Dialectic of Enlightenment is one of the most celebrated works of modern social... -
Rousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies by Robert Wokler 9780691147895
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $57.41Robert Wokler was one of the world's leading experts on Rousseau and the Enlightenment, but some of his best work was published in the form of widely scattered and difficult-to-find essays. This book... -
Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy by Peter E. Gordon 9780691135113
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $37.49During its short lifespan, the Weimar Republic (1918-33) witnessed an unprecedented flowering of achievements in many areas, including psychology, political theory, physics, philosophy, literary and... -
Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy by Peter E. Gordon 9780691135106
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $54.44During its short lifespan, the Weimar Republic (1918-33) witnessed an unprecedented flowering of achievements in many areas, including psychology, political theory, physics, philosophy, literary and... -
Archives of Authority: Empire, Culture, and the Cold War by Andrew N. Rubin 9780691154152
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $47.15Combining literary, cultural, and political history, and based on extensive archival research, including previously unseen FBI and CIA documents, Archives of Authority argues that cultural... -
Progress and Regression Rahel Jaeggi 9780674298019
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $32.84A landmark work of social and political philosophy that finds this leading heir to the Frankfurt School at the height of her powers.Despite widespread technological innovation, scientific and medical... -
Emile Cohl, Caricature, and Film by Donald Crafton
RRP: $79.98Booksplease Price: $64.31This is the definitive biography of Emile Cohl (1857-1938), one of the most important pioneers of the art of the animated cartoon and an innovative contributor to popular graphic humor at a critical... -
Knowledge and Politics: The Sociology of Knowledge Dispute by Volker Meja
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $57.07Karl Mannheim's Ideology and Utopia has been a profoundly provocative book. The debate about politics and social knowledge that was spawned by its original publication in 1929 attracted the most... -
Thorstein Veblen and His Critics, 1891-1963: Conservative, Liberal, and Radical Perspectives by Rick Tilman
RRP: $74.82Booksplease Price: $59.97The influential economist and philosopher Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) was one of the most original and penetrating critics of American culture and institutions, and his work attracted and still... -
Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics, and Humanity by Kei Hiruta
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $42.61For the first time, the full story of the conflict between two of the twentieth century's most important thinkers-and the lessons their disagreements continue to offerTwo of the most iconic thinkers... -
Domination and Power by Peter Miller 9780367253943
RRP: $45.14Booksplease Price: $41.77First published in 1987. Our understanding of the nature of power in western societies is currently undergoing a major reassessment. The significance of this reassessment emerges forcefully through... -
Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics and Humanity by Kei Hiruta 9780691226125
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $21.78For the first time, the full story of the conflict between two of the twentieth century's most important thinkers-and the lessons their disagreements continue to offerTwo of the most iconic thinkers... -
Heidegger on Technology by Aaron James Wendland
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $56.13This collection offers the first comprehensive and definitive account of Martin Heidegger's philosophy of technology. It does so through a detailed analysis of canonical texts and recently published... -
The Critical Turn in Education: From Marxist Critique to Poststructuralist Feminism to Critical Theories of Race Isaac Gottesman (University of Iowa, USA) 9781138781351
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $55.57The Critical Turn in Education traces the historical emergence and development of critical theories in the field of education, from the introduction of Marxist and other radical social theories in...