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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 103–137.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Kevin S. Amidon In his early writings Max Horkheimer explored the issues surrounding biological explanation in Kantian and neo-Kantian philosophy. After he became director of the Institut für Sozialforschung in 1930, he continued to explore the relationships between biology, materialism...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (3 (144)): 1–30.
Published: 01 November 2021
...George W. Shea, IV Copyright © 2021 by New German Critique, Inc. 2021 Largely overshadowed by the renown of his colleagues Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Herbert Marcuse, Max Horkheimer’s contributions to the Frankfurt School are often downplayed as those of the mere director...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 155–179.
Published: 01 February 2018
...Katherine C. Bermingham Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment laid indispensable groundwork for critiquing instrumental rationality and the power dynamics embedded in discursive logic. Especially relevant for feminist theorists is the pair’s excursus on Homer’s Odyssey...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 207–227.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Esther Oluffa Pedersen In giving a philosophical account of the rise of National Socialism in early- and mid-twentieth-century Germany, many philosophers have pointed to myth as an explanatory feature. The work of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno in the Dialectic of Enlightenment is renowned...
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (1 (100)): 47–76.
Published: 01 February 2007
... of Oxford University Press and—as he wrote to Max Horkheimer that night—discovered that “a surprise expected [sic] me”: “You remember that there is a showcase next to the entrance door where the Press exhibits their newest publications. There was nothing else in the case but your book. Fourteen...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 67–111.
Published: 01 February 2012
...Christopher Holman This article reexamines the thought of Herbert Marcuse in the context of contemporary trends in the reception of other leading figures in Frankfurt critical theory, particularly Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer. It demonstrates that Marcuse's affirmative theoretical project...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 81–89.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Jeffrey Herf The word critical as applied to the theory of the Frankfurt School applies to the views of capitalism and the Enlightenment in Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno's classic work, Dialectic of Enlightenment . The absence of reference to the specificities of German history...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (2 (131)): 75–103.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Stefan Breuer The article discusses the contributions of the Frankfurt School (Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, and Erich Fromm) to a theory of fascism in the 1930s and 1940s, after the Institute for Social Research had moved to the United States. The discussion concentrates...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (1 (136)): 103–126.
Published: 01 February 2019
... Horkheimer and the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and then considers the substantive correspondences and divergences between their bodies of thought. The article calls for further studies into their intellectual relationship, especially with regard to how their oeuvres may be differentially applied...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 107–138.
Published: 01 August 2020
... of reification, which is defended against Honneth’s definition of this concept. Based on an interpretation of passages in Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment and Adorno’s notion of “working through the past,” the article claims that reification should be understood as a forgetting...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 177–204.
Published: 01 August 2021
... with Adorno’s correspondence with Max Horkheimer sheds light on Spengler as an overlooked key (next to Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, and Walter Benjamin) to their Dialectic of Enlightenment , written in 1941–44. Adorno’s daring effort to appropriate Spengler’s analysis of Caesarism makes Adorno’s critical theory...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 1–29.
Published: 01 February 2023
... to natural science that Engels had advocated. The result was an indispensably incisive critique of social domination and a deepening skepticism about natural-scientific contributions to the construction of the postcapitalist alternative. Through a new reading of the development of Max Horkheimer’s analysis...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 81–106.
Published: 01 August 2020
... Horkheimer critical institutionalism Institute of Social Research rackets National Socialism Otto Kirchheimer (1905–65) was one of a group of young German Jewish lawyers driven into exile after 1933, needing then to establish new livelihoods and restart their professional careers as scholars, some...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 5–14.
Published: 01 February 2006
... roles in translating, introducing, and “mediating” Adorno and Wal- ter Benjamin’s relation to a larger world. In 1969 Martin Jay came to Frank- furt. His work in the 1970s kept alive a consciousness of the relation between the European critical theorists Adorno and Max Horkheimer—both of whom had...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 175–184.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., Schopenhauer’s characterization of the compromised status of university philosophy resonates with Max Horkheimer’s seminal 1937 description of traditional theory in the essay “Traditional and Critical Theory.” There Horkheimer remarks on the increasing reification of traditional theory in the humanities...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 29–41.
Published: 01 February 2013
... toward enlightenment’s goal of abolishing fear. It mitigates terror by imitating and propitiating local spirits. Because Max Horkheimer and Adorno rely on a limited reading of Marcel Mauss,4 they are interested only in sympathetic magic, where “like produces like, contact results in contagion...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 155–173.
Published: 01 November 2016
... Henri . Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp . Baragwanath Nicholas . 2005 . “Musicology and Critical Theory: The Case of Wagner, Adorno, and Horkheimer.” Music and Letters 87 , no. 3 : 52 – 71 . Bernstein J. M. 2001 . Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics . Cambridge : Cambridge...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 175–201.
Published: 01 November 2016
... – 86 . Horkheimer Max Adorno Theodor W. . 1986 . Dialektik der Aufklärung. Vol. 3 of Adorno, Gesammelte Schriften , edited by Tiedemann Rolf . Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp . ———. 1997 . Dialectic of Enlightenment , translated by Cummings John . London : Verso...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 159–178.
Published: 01 February 2006
... important animals were to Adorno, discussing a song, “The Return Home of the Mammoth with a Trunk,” that Adorno composed in February 1941 about Max Horkheimer’s return to New York: “What’s driving there in the car and sticking out its long trunk? / it’s a mammoth, it’s a mammoth and it’s driving...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 149–174.
Published: 01 February 2013
... contribution made by the editors of the journal, which has uncompromisingly, intelligently, and critically argued for a more balanced and refined under - standing of Adorno. On the important distinctions between “popular culture,” “mass culture,” and the “culture industry” in Adorno (and Horkheimer), see...