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In 1941 the institute, which had been beset by financial troubles, was effectively dissolved, and Horkheimer moved to Los Angeles. There he collaborated with Adorno on an influential study, Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), which traced the rise of fascism and other forms of totalitarianism to the Enlightenment notion of “instrumental” reason. The work’s pessimism reflects the defeats that progressive European social movements had suffered since the early 1930s. A more accessible version of the book’s argument also appeared in 1947 under the title The Eclipse of Reason. In 1950 Horkheimer returned to Frankfurt, where he reestablished the institute and ultimately became rector of the university. His later work displays his enduring fascination with the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) and the philosophy of religion. Horkheimer felt that Schopenhauer’s pessimistic social philosophy more faithfully reflected the lost prospects for utopia than did the more optimistic social theories of the postwar period.
Max Horkheimer | German philosopher
WHEN THE GOAL WAS TO DUMB DOWN AMERICA------------- the Public schools succeeded and this is why you think THERE IS NO CIVIL WAR GOING ON.......
it's an INFORMATION WAR STUPID FKS!!!!
Max Horkheimer | German philosopher
WHEN THE GOAL WAS TO DUMB DOWN AMERICA------------- the Public schools succeeded and this is why you think THERE IS NO CIVIL WAR GOING ON.......
it's an INFORMATION WAR STUPID FKS!!!!