Toward a Critical Theory: Max Horkheimer

2019 ◽  
pp. 75-99
Author(s):  
Dick Howard
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Max Horkheimer

Religion and Critical Theory in Max Horkheimer

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-122
Author(s):  
Manoel de Moraes
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Philosophy Of Religion ◽  
Max Horkheimer

Religion and Critical Theory in Max Horkheimer This paper is an effort to focus some aspects about a Philosophy of Religion inside Critic Theory, especially in the thought of Max Horkheimer.

The Critical Theory of Max Horkheimer

2017 ◽  
pp. 15-72
Author(s):  
W. Adorno Theodor ◽  
Torr Zoltán ◽  
Landmann Michael
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Max Horkheimer

1. The Frankfurt School

2017 ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
Stephen Eric Bronner
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Herbert Marcuse ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Erich Fromm ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
History Of ◽  
Inner Circle

‘The Frankfurt School’ provides a brief history of the formation of the Frankfurt School, and biographies of prominent members. The Frankfurt School grew out of the Institute for Social Research, the first Marxist think tank. However, in 1930, under the directorship of Max Horkheimer, the organization moved to America to escape the Nazis, and began to concentrate on critical theory. Aside from Horkheimer, notable members of the Frankfurt School's inner circle included Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and Jürgen Habermas. Each member of the inner circle was different, but they all shared the same concerns, and attempted to solve them through intellectual daring and experimentation.

A critical theory of religious insight

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 357-374
Author(s):  
Marc P. Lalonde
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
Ethical Content ◽  
Meaning And Purpose

This essay begins and ends with the question: what is the meaning and purpose of religious thought today? In response to this query, the paper outlines the critical significance of the socio-cultural fragmentation of contemporary religious thought by: first, reclaiming an ethical moment within the critical theory of Max Horkheimer; second, justifying the significance of that moment by expanding our understanding of morality as explained by Charles Taylor; and third, cultivating its religio-ethical content in relation to Emmanuel Levinas' understanding of God as an ethical force that interrupts, subverts and throws into question. It is this juxtaposition of themes that points toward a critical theory necessarily informed by religious insights. What it represents is an untried form of critical theory whose religio-ethical cast and substance contributes to the venture of contemporary thinking by working with the fragility of religious thought today.

scholarly journals TEORI KRITIS DAN RELEVANSINYA UNTUK PENGKAJIAN TERHADAP REALITAS SOSIAL BANGSA INDONESIA

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Sermada Kelen Donatus
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Herbert Marcuse ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
Systemic Corruption

This essay elaborates the Critical Theory proposed by a group of German intellectuals who revived the anti-capitalist social theory of Karl Marx. They belong to what is called the “Frankfurt-School” which emphasises the contextualisation of Marx’ theory. Critical Theory emerged as a response to anti-socialist dominance in contemporary society. This essay takes up some of the ideas of Frankfurt-School members Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and Jürgen Habermas. Critical Theory can impact greatly on how we read present-day Indonesian society which is being destroyed by the global capitalist-system which in turn is producing social diseases like systemic corruption. Keywords: Teori Kritis, sekolah Frankfurt, Karl Marx, Horkhmeimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Habermas, relevansi teori kritis, realitas sosial Indonesia.

scholarly journals NEGATIVITAS TOTAL: KRITIK ADORNO TERHADAP RASIONALITAS DAN SENI MASYARAKAT MODERN

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Sunarto Sunarto
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
Art Object ◽  
The Arts

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969) adalah salah satu tokoh dari Mazhab Frankfurt, yang sangat akrab dengan Max Horkheimer. Keduanya membesarkan Mazhab Frankfurt. Adorno ahli dari berbagai bidang: filsafat, sosiologi, dan musikolgi. Pemikirannya saling bertautan. Kritiknya terhadap seni modern lebih kepada pertautan dengan sosiologi. Kondisi masyarakat modern post-aufklarung telah begitu memprihatinkan dengan mengorbankan hidup demi rasionalitas teknologi yang instrumental. Adorno menganggap telah terjadi pembalikkan total atas peran manusia sebagai subjek menjadi objek. Masyarakat modern telah terjebak rasionalitasnya sendiri. Bidang seni telah terjebak pada industrialisasi, yang memungkinkan manusia telah kehilangan daya estetis. Manusia menciptakan seni dan sebagai subjek seni akhirnya menjadi objek seni. Realitas inilah yang disebut sebagai “negativitas total”, manusia ingin menguasai alam akhirnya terkuasai oleh alam itu sendiri. Seni yang diciptakan manusia, akhirnya menjadi seni untuk kebutuhan “sesaat” dan konsumtif belaka.Kata Kunci: seni, negativitas total, teori kritis, rasionalitas Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969) is one of the leaders of the Frankfurt School, who is very familiar with Max Horkheimer. Both raise the Frankfurt School. Adorno experts from various fields: philosophy, sociology, and musikolgi. Their thinking is interlocked. His criticism of modern art is more to engagement with sociology. Conditions Aufklarung post-modern society has been so alarming at the expense live for rasionality instrumental technology. Adorno considers there has been a total reversal of the role of man as a subject to an object. Modern society has stuck own rationality. The arts have been stuck on industrialization, which allows humans have lost their aesthetic. Humans create art and as a subject of art eventually became an art object. Reality is what is referred to as "total negativity", humans want to control nature eventually possessed by nature itself. Art created humans, eventually becoming an art for the needs of “instantaneous” and a mere consumer.Keywords: art, total negativity, critical theory, rationality 

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