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Critical Theory: Essays
Collection of Horkhiemer's early essays that define the program of critical theory. Includes seminal essays such as "Traditional and Critical Theory" and "The Latests Attacks on Metaphysics," providing background and context for many of the wartime…
The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays
A collection of essays published during the Weimar Republic that reflect on the contemporary state of reason and society as expressed in the material products of modern mass capitalism, most notebly in dance revues, photography, and the literary…
Tags: critical theory, materialism, media, modernity
Critique of Instrumental Reason
A series critical essays that connect the rise of Enlightenment thinking with the emergence of state bureaucratic apparatuses that oppress human societies through a distinctive form of ‘instrumental rationality’.
Tags: critical theory, history, In-between, modernity
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
A landmark text critiquing the universalizing project of the European enlightenment. It argues the so-called promises of the intellectual movement remain unfulfilled, as does the forward-moving, developmental picture of history as a progressive…
Tags: critical theory, disciplines, modernity
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Less a single coherent argument than a series of meditations, this book introduces many of the concepts that would become foundational to Marxist thought and critical theory, more generally, including alienation, exploitation, and dialectical…
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
Perhaps the most canonical work of Marxist critical theory in the twentieth century, Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment investigates how the project of the Enlightenment transforms into a logic of domination and instrumentalization in…
Tags: capitalism, critical theory, Marxism, materialism, myth, philosophy, psychoanalysis
"Art and Democracy"
Interprets an “increasingly visible weariness and distrust towards democracy” and proposes the construction of contemporary “Academies of Art” to aid in the education of “mature” citizens. Lachenmann interpolates his remarks into two discourses.…
Tags: aesthetic, citizenship, contemporary, destruction, disciplines, Lachenmann, music, philosophy, Schiller
On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Deserves as much credit as any source for bringing the political implications of Kant’s Critique of Judgment into contemporary discourse. Despondent over the perceived failure of the French Revolution, Schiller asks, “Why are we still barbarians?” He…
Tags: 18th century, aesthetic, citizenship, disciplines, Kant, philosophy, Schiller
Critique of the Faculty of Judgment [Urteilskraft]
Received most often as Kant’s aesthetic treatise, but also understood as his mature political treatise (cf., Hannah Arendt’s “ectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy). Unlike most aesthetic treatises before and since, this one privileges natural over…
Tags: 18th century, aesthetic, citizenship, disciplines, Kant, philosophy
The History of Materialism and Criticism of Its Present Importance
Lange’s lengthy history contains a useful overview of materialist authors from Lucretius to Holbach, along with some (biased) discussion of the Kantian and post-Kantian reaction against materialist thought. Although Lange is sympathetic to many forms…
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