“the rationally organized society that regulates its own existence”
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Max Horkheimer
Max Horkheimer was a German philosopher and sociologist best known for his role in developing critical theory as director of the Institute for Social Research, commonly associated with the Frankfurt School.
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culture · German philosopher and sociologist (1895–1973) · philosopher · pedagogue · sociologist · university teacher · literary critic · also Max Horkheimer, Horkheimer
Born 14 February 1895 · Died 7 July 1973 · Q76826
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1973· 2 entries
Died 1973-07-07.
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And was buried in the Jewish cemetery of Bern next to his wife
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1970· 1 entry
Awarded Goethe-Plakette des Landes Hessen (1970).
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1954· 1 entry
And 1959 to lecture as a frequent visiting professor at the University of Chicago
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1953· 3 entries
Awarded Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt (1953).
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Was awarded the Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt, and was later named an honorary citizen of Frankfurt for life
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Horkheimer stepped down from director of the Institute and took on a smaller role in the institute, while Adorno became director
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1949· 1 entry
Returned to Frankfurt, where the Institute for Social Research reopened in 1950
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1942· 1 entry
Horkheimer assumed the directorship of the Scientific Division of the American Jewish Committee
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1941· 1 entry
And published in 1947, is broken into five sections: Means and Ends, Conflicting Panaceas, The Revolt of Nature, The Rise and Decline of the Individual, and On the Concept of Philosophy
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1940· 1 entry
Horkheimer received American citizenship and moved to the Pacific Palisades district of Los Angeles, California, where his collaboration with Adorno would yield the Dialectic of Enlightenment
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1937· 1 entry
“The Latest Attack on Metaphysics”
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1933· 1 entry
The institute was thus forced to close its location in Germany
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1930· 2 entries
The Nazi party became the second largest party in the Reichstag
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Was promoted to professor of philosophy at the University of Frankfurt am Main
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1926· 4 entries
And remained together until her death in 1969
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Horkheimer married Rose Riekher
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And remain together until her death in 1969
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Horkheimer was an "unsalaried lecturer in Frankfurt"
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1925· 1 entry
Horkheimer was habilitated with a dissertation entitled Kant's Critique of Judgment as Mediation between Practical and Theoretical Philosophy (Über Kants Kritik der Urteilskraft als Bindeglied zwischen theoretischer und
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1917· 1 entry
His manufacturing career ended and his chances of taking over his family business were interrupted when he was drafted into World War I
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1910· 1 entry
To work in the family business, where he eventually became a junior manager
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1895· 1 entry
Born 1895-02-14.
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