On Max Horkheimer: New Perspectives (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)

Book Overview

This collection of essays by German and American scholars will help familiarize English-speaking readers with the most important results of this recent work and, in conjunction with a companion volume of Horkheimer's essays, Between Philosophy and Social Science, should provide a much fuller and deeper picture of his role in the history of modern social theory.Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), one of the founders of critical theory and a sometime colleague of Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, and Walter Benjamin, has become a subject of renewed attention and appreciation in Germany in the last decade. This collection of essays by German and American scholars will help familiarize English-speaking readers with the most important results of this recent work and, in conjunction with a companion volume of Horkheimer's essays, Between Philosophy and Social Science, should provide a much fuller and deeper picture of his role in the history of modern social theory.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262023555
• ISBN13: 9780262023559
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.5"