Eclipse of Reason / Edition 1

by Max Horkheimer

Overview

In his most important work, Max Horkheimer surveys and demonstrates the gradual ascendancy of Reason in Western philosophy, its eventual total application to all spheres of life, and what he considers its present reified domination. First published in 1947, Horkheimer here explores the ways in Nazism - that most irrational of political movements - had co-opted ideas of rationality for its own ends. Ultimately, the book is a warning of the ways this might happen again and, as such, this is a book that has never appeared more timely.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780938189
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/27/2013
Series:	Bloomsbury Revelations
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	1,056,311
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Max Horkheimer, founder and long-time director of the famous Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, was professor emeritus of philosophy and sociology at the University of Frankfurt until his death in 1973. He is one of the founders of the Frankfurt School.

Table of Contents

I. Means and Ends
II. Conflicting Panaceas
III. The Revolt of Nature
IV. Rise and Decline of the Individual
V. On the Concept of Philosophy
Index.

Editorial Reviews

"The Frankfurt School knew Trump was coming" - The New Yorker

"Virtuosic at critiquing the viciousness of fascism and capitalism's socially eviscerating, spiritually crushing impact on western societies." - Stuart Jeffries, Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School

"Reason is sick. Horkheimer made a magnificent diagnosis of this illness." - Wilson Decembre, Can reason save itself? A critical reading of Max Horkheimer's "Eclipse of reason"

"A profoundly suggestive diagnosis of the intellectual sickness of our day" - Nature

"The ongoing international crisis of capitalism and liberal democracy has prompted a resurgence of interest in [the Frankfurt School's] body of work known as critical theory." - The New Yorker

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