Max Horkheimer

Max Horkheimer (February 14, 1895 - July 7, 1973) was a German philosopher and sociologist, known especially as the founder and guiding thinker of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. He was born in Stuttgart and died in Nürnberg.

Horkheimer (front left) and Adorno (front right); Jürgen Habermas in back, right. Heidelberg, 1965.

Biography

• Director of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research (Frankfurt School) from 1930-1958
• Rector of the University of Frankfurt (1953-8)

Select Bibliography

• Authority and the Family (1936)
• Critique of Instrumental Reason (1967)
• Dawn & Decline
• Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947) - with Theodor Adorno
• Eclipse of Reason (1967)
• Egoism and the Freedom Movement
• The Authoritarian State
• The Longing for the Totally Other