{"title":"Max Horkheimer","description":"Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) was a philosopher and sociologist.","products":[{"product_id":"eclipse-of-reason-paperback","title":"Eclipse of Reason - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Eclipse of Reason, Horkheimer discusses how the Nazis were able to project their agenda as \"reasonable\", but also identifies the Pragmatism of John Dewey as problematic, due to his emphasis on the instrumental dimension of reasoning. It is broken into five sections: Means and Ends, Conflicting Panaceas, The Revolt of Nature, The Rise and Decline of the Individual and On the Concept of Philosophy and deals with the concept of reason within the history of western philosophy. Horkheimer defines true reason as rationality, which can only be fostered in an environment of free, critical thinking. He details the difference between objective, subjective and instrumental reason, and states that we have moved from the former through the centre and into the latter (though subjective and instrumental reason are closely connected). Objective reason deals with universal truths that dictate that an action is either right or wrong. It is a concrete concept, and a force in the world that requires specific modes of behaviour.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366813237471,"sku":"9781773238807","price":12.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/UvmxRlMbWB9781773238807.webp?v=1789098733"},{"product_id":"eclipse-of-reason-paperback-1","title":"Eclipse of Reason - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e2013 Reprint of 1947 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. \"Eclipse of Reason\" discusses how the Nazis were able to project their agenda as \"reasonable\". It is broken into five sections: 1] Means and Ends, 2] Conflicting Panaceas, 3]The Revolt of Nature, 4] The Rise and Decline of the Individual and 5] On the Concept of Philosophy. It also treats the concept of reason within the history of western philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377623433439,"sku":"9781614274131","price":17.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/dEJKOTc5YUtmR3liWHVIRit6cDNMUT09.webp?v=1789236217"},{"product_id":"critique-of-instrumental-reason-paperback","title":"Critique of Instrumental Reason - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377642733791,"sku":"9781781680230","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/nly6hnhtbg9781781680230.webp?v=1789236269"},{"product_id":"towards-a-new-manifesto-paperback","title":"Towards a New Manifesto - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eTheodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer wrote the central text of \"critical theory\", \u003ci\u003eDialectic of Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e, a measured critique of the Enlightenment reason that, they argued, had resulted in fascism and totalitarianism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTowards a New Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e shows the two philosophers in a uniquely spirited and free-flowing exchange of ideas. This book is a record of their discussions over three weeks in the spring of 1956, recorded with a view to the production of a contemporary version of \u003ci\u003eThe Communist Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e. A philosophical jam-session in which the two thinkers improvise freely, often wildly, on central themes of their work--theory and practice, labor and leisure, domination and freedom--in a political register found nowhere else in their writing. Amid a careening flux of arguments, aphorisms and asides, in which the trenchant alternates with the reckless, the playful with the ingenuous, positions are swapped and contradictions unheeded, without any compulsion for consistency. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA thrilling example of philosophy in action and a compelling map of a possible passage to a new world.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377763778783,"sku":"9781786635532","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/8H55QEfF1V9781786635532.webp?v=1789240127"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/max-horkheimer.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}