Max Horkheimer
Max Horkheimer (February 14, 1895 – July 7, 1973) was a German philosopher and sociologist known for his work in critical theory as a member of the Frankfurt School of social research.
Literature
- Monographs
- Die gegenwärtige Lage der Sozialphilosophie und die Aufgaben eines Instituts für Sozialforschung. Öffentliche Antrittsvorlesung bei Übernahme des Lehrstuhls für Sozialphilosophie und der Leitung des Instituts für Sozialforschung am 24. Januar 1931, Frankfurt am Main: Englert & Schlosser, 1931. (in German)
- Traditional and Critical Theory, 1937.
- Théorie traditionnelle et théorie critique, trans. C. Maillard and S. Muller, Paris: Gallimard, 1974. (in French)
- Traditionelle und kritische Theorie: Fünf Aufsätze, 7th ed., Frankfurt am Main, 2011. (in German)
- "The Social Function of Philosophy", 1939; repr. in Critical Theory. Selected Essays Max Horkheimer, Continuum, 1982.
- with Theodor W. Adorno, Dialektik der Aufklärung: Philosophische Fragmente, Amsterdam: Querido, 1947; repr. Theodor W. Adorno, with Max Horkheimer, Gesammelte Schriften 3, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1987. (in German)
- Dialectic of Enlightenment: philosophical Fragments, Herder and Herder, 1972; trans. John Cumming, New York: Continuum, 1989; ed. Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, trans. Edmund Jephcott, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002.
- Dialektika osvícenství. Filosofické fragmenty, trans. Michael Hauser and Milan Váňa, Prague: Oikoymenh, 2009. (in Czech)
- Eclipse of Reason, New York: Oxford University Press, 1947; New York: Continuum, 1974; Bloomsbury, 2004.
- Zur Kritik der instrumentellen Vernunft, 1967; Fischer, 1997. (in German)
- Collected writings
- Critique of Instrumental Reason: Lectures and Essays Since the End of World War II, New York: Seabury, 1974; 1995.
- with Theodor W. Adorno, Soziologische Exkurse, Frankfurt am Main: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1956. (in German)
- La sociedad. Lecciones de sociología, trans. Floreal Mazia and Irene Cusien, Buenos Aires: Proteo, 1969. (in Spanish).
- Kritische Theorie, 2 Vols., Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1968. (in German)
- Critical Theory. Selected Essays, ed. & trans. Matthew J. O'Connell, New York: Seabury Press, 1972; New York: Continuum, 1999; 2002.
- Dawn and Decline: Notes 1926–1931 & 1950–1969, New York: Seabury Press, 1978.
- Gesammelte Schriften, 19 vols., eds. Alfred Schmidt and Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1985-. (in German)
- Between Philosophy and Social Science: Selected Early Writings, eds. G. Hunter, M. Kramer and J. Torpey, MIT Press, 1993.
- On Horkheimer
- "Max Horkheimer", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2009.
- S. Benhabib, W. Bonß, J. McCole (eds.), On Max Horkheimer: New Perspectives, MIT Press, 1993.
- Bibliographies
- in On Max Horkheimer: New Perspectives, MIT Press, 1993. Contains a partial bibliography.
- in Max Horkheimer Gesammelte Schriften, Band 19: Nachträge, Verzeichnisse, und Register, eds. A Schmidt and G. Schmid Noerr, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1996. Contains an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources. (in German)
