By Bernard E. Harcourt In the end, there is a fundamental clash between these two early texts by Horkheimer and Adorno, which reveals dramatically different sensibilities. Horkheimer’s text aims for a perfectly rational society, organized reasonably around economic production. The… Continue Reading
By Axel Honneth The two articles that we will discuss (Adorno, „The Actuality of Philosophy“; Horkheimer, „Traditional and Critical Theory“) are very different with regard to substance as well as to method; the differences even reveal that Adorno and… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt We turn today to two texts. First, Horkheimer’s 1937 article “Traditional and Critical Theory,” which sets forth the blueprint of Horkheimer’s vision of the research project and method for the Institute for Social Research at the… Continue Reading