Foreign thinker
Max Horkheimer
Max HorkheimerSocial philosophy, critical theory, and sociologyGerman1895–1973
The more the concept of reason becomes emasculated, the more easily it lends itself to ideological manipulation and to the propagation of even the most blatant lies.
Life and Thought
Max Horkheimer was a German philosopher and sociologist and one of the founding figures of the Frankfurt School. As director of the Institute for Social Research, he developed critical theory and examined instrumental reason, capitalism, and cultural domination in works such as Eclipse of Reason and Dialectic of Enlightenment.