Category Archives: Horkheimer

Dialética aberta ou negação determinada? – Alessandro Belan

Dialética aberta ou negação determinada ?Discussão da dialética nos “Seminários da Escola de Frankfurt” – Alessandro Belan 1. Sentido das discussões de 1939 sobre ciência e dialética: o conceito de “teoria crítica” Nos ano trinta, antes do exílio americano, Adorno … Continue reading

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Dialética do Esclarecimento

“O burguês que deixasse escapar um lucro pelo motivo kantiano do respeito à mera forma da lei não seria esclarecido, mas supersticioso – um tolo. A raiz do otimismo kantiano, segundo o qual o agir moral é racional mesmo quando … Continue reading

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The Present Situation of Social Philosophy and the Tasks of an Institute for Social Research – Max Horkheimer 1931

Written: in German in 1931; Source: Between Philosophy and Social Science. Selected Early Writings Max Horkheimer, MIT Press 1993, 425pp, pp. 1-14 reproduced here; Translated: by John Torpey; Transcribed: by Andy Blunden 2006.

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The Social Function of Philosophy – Max Horkheimer 1939

Written: in English in 1939; Source: Critical Theory. Selected Essays Max Horkheimer, published by Continuum 1982; Public Domain: this article is free of copyright; Transcribed: by Andy Blunden.

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