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.
| ISBN: | 9781781680230 |
| Publication date: | 22nd January 2013 |
| Author: | Max Horkheimer |
| Publisher: | Verso |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 176 pages |
| Series: | Radical Thinkers |
| Genres: |
Western philosophy from c 1800 Social and political philosophy Social theory |