Max Horkheimer is well known as the director of the Frankfurt
Institute for Social Research and as a sometime collaborator with
Theodor Adorno, especially on their classic Dialectic of
Enlightenment. These essays reveal another side of Horkheimer,
focusing on his remarkable contributions to critical theory in the
1930s.Included are Horkheimer's inaugural address as director of
the Institute, in which he outlines the interdisciplinary research
program that would dominate the initial phase of the Frankfurt
School, his first full monograph, and a number of other pieces
published in the 1930s. The essays, most of which have not appeared
in English before, are surprisingly relevant to current
post-philosophy debates, notably "On the Problem of Truth," with
its focus on pragmatism, and "The Rationalism Debate in Current
Philosophy," a sustained critique of the post-Cartesian philosophy
of consciousness. Horkheimer's 1933 critique of Kantian ethics,
"Materialism and Morality," is of particular interest given the
current reaction to the neo-Kantian aspect of Habermas's work.
There are also essays relevant to the current foundations debate
within Continental philosophy, and the rationality/relativism
question is sustained throughout the volume.
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