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Max Horkheimer
Critique of Instrumental Reason [EPUB ebook]

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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 and director of the Institute for Social Research from 1930 to 1959.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 180 ● ISBN 9781781689905 ● File size 1.8 MB ● Translator Matthew O’Connell ● Publisher Verso ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5518491 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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