Max Horkheimer

In his most important work, Max Horkheimer surveys and demonstrates the gradual ascendancy of Reason in Western philosophy, its eventual total application to all spheres of life, and what he considers its present reified domination. First published in 1947, Horkheimer explores the ways in which Nazism— that most irrational of political movements—co-opted ideas of rationality for its own ends. Ultimately,...