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... with the new worldview sociology, as Herbert Marcuse, Max Horkheimer, and Theodor Adorno saw it, was that it diluted the message of Marx's materialist approach and veered heavily back toward traditional idealist philosophy. The significance of the intervention of the Frankfurt School lies in the fact...

... explicitly on a tradition of earlier twentieth-century scholarship—Walter Benjamin, Roger Caillois, and Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno—that located in the mimetic faculty a way out of a techno-fetishized social milieu. This essay explores how mimesis has once again been endowed with revolutionary...

...Robyn Marasco This article considers The Authoritarian Personality in terms of a consistent argument in early critical theory—that fascism begins in the family. It explores the foundations of this argument in Max Horkheimer’s Studies on Authority and the Family , his first major research project...

... Press 2018 Frankfurt School critical theory authoritarianism gender feminism References Abromeit John . 2011 . Max Horkheimer and the Foundations of the Frankfurt School . New York : Cambridge University Press . Adorno Theodor W. . 1950a . “ The Measurement...

..., Else Frenkel- Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson, R. Nevitt Sanford, Etc. [In Collaboration with Other Writers. A Reduced Photographic Reprint of the Edition of 1950] . New York : Wiley and Sons . Adorno Theodor W. Horkheimer Max . 1987 . Dialektik der Aufklärung (Dialectic of Enlightenment...

... Nietzschean, and rather queer, passage from Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment: “Anyone who sniffs out ‘bad’ smells in order to extirpate them may imitate to his heart’s content the snuffling which takes its unrationalized pleasure in the smell itself. Disinfected...

... of mediation across the caesura of genocide is, however, captured well in an innocent story, an aside more than a tale, recounted by Alexander Kluge.10 Kluge remembers hearing that, in 1941, Max Horkheimer worked obsessively at night. He could not and would not fall asleep because he doubted that he would ever...

... on Adorno et al.’s The Authoritarian Personality. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 authoritarianism real time presidential election References Adorno Theodor W. 1948 . “ Remarks on The Authoritarian Personality .” Page 20 . Max Horkheimer Archive...

... Propaganda .” In The Essential Frankfurt School Reader , edited by Arato Andrew Gephardt Eike , 118 – 37 . London : Bloomsbury . Adorno Theodor W. Horkheimer Max . 2007 . The Dialectic of Enlightenment . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Adorno Theodor W...

... of our political imagination. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 antipositivism authoritarianism critical theory political psychology behavioralism References Adorno Theodor W. Horkheimer Max . 2002 . Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments . Edited...

... Nationalist Trying to Ride the Trump Train to Lasting Power .” Mother Jones , October 27 . www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/richard-spencer-trump-alt-right-white-nationalist . Horkheimer Max Adorno Theodor . 1947 . Dialektik der Aufklärung (The Dialectic of Enlightenment...

... into so many cynical, selfish, and unrealistic economic impulses—in the case of reactionary forces; or it ends with a call for a culture of hope, as the urgent task for progressive thought. Nowhere is this more striking than in Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer's ( 2002 ) Dialectic of Enlightenment...

...- talism. Initially, traditional Marxism conceived the industrial working class as the subject of history. However, with the failure of the working class to become a revolutionary subject of history, the search was on for a succes- sor. Was it Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno’s marginalized intellec...

... organizations, or election" via compul­ sory institutional means, or on an achievement basis. S The critique of instrumental reason is, of course, associated more with Max Horkheimer than with Adorno, who drew independently, as did Herbert Marcuse, on Max Scheier s theory of modem science as knowledge...

... and, of course, Freud between hieroglyphic writing and the figurative script of dreams, which both resist im­ mediate perception and understanding, instead requiring the work of decipherment and interpretation.15 Yet the hieroglyphic analogy also recalls Horkheimer and Adorno s analysis of the ideological mecha­...

... century as a whole, but rather face up to that entwinement of enlightenment and vio­ lence which Horkheimer and Adorno diagnosed in their historical thesis. In order to begin to reconstruct such a history, Geyer uses the two themes of the nationalization of German society, which intertwined a deadly poli­...

... originally had close ties with the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow. But by the time they had become German and Austrian refugees and began to settle in New York in 1934 as an affiliate of Columbia University, Max Horkheimer, Eric Fromm, and Theodor Adorno were already involved in Freudian studies. The art...

..., that the proletariat had in a sense never existed at all. On the contrary, even in socialist countries workers still, beneath the surface, thought of themselves in terms of reli­ gion and ethnicity rather than class. In this the workers explicitly confirmed the judgment of Adorno and Horkheimer that classical...

... set of attempts to reenchant the world. Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer ( 1997 ) famously built on Max Weber's ( 2001 ) theory to argue that, while technocratic, scientific, and actuarial logics of protestant-led European capitalism had stripped the world of its enchantments, the instrumentalization...

... thought as expressions of an historical/ material reality they don’t fully apprehend. One of the aspects of your project that stands out is the respect you show for Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness. You show, among other things, how indebted Adorno, Horkheimer...