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Critique of Instrumental Reason

Translated by Matthew O'Connell
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On sale Jan 16, 2013 | 176 Pages | 9781781680230
These 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.
Max Horkheimer (1895–1973) was a philosopher and sociologist.

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These 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.

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Max Horkheimer (1895–1973) was a philosopher and sociologist.