Max Horkheimer
Max Horkheimer · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Director of the Frankfurt School and co-founder of critical theory
1895, Stuttgart, Germany — 1973, Nuremberg, West Germany
Germany · United States
Max Horkheimer is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Director of the Frankfurt School and co-founder of critical theory
Horkheimer directed the Frankfurt School's Institute for Social Research and co-founded critical theory, co-writing Dialectic of Enlightenment with Theodor Adorno. He was born into a Jewish family in Stuttgart and was Jewish, fleeing Nazi Germany for the United States before returning after the war. His work is central to twentieth-century social and political philosophy.
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Director of the Frankfurt School and co-founder of critical theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
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