Critique of Instrumental Reason

These essays, written between 1949 and 1967, focus on a single theme: the triumph in the twentieth century of the state-bureaucratic apparatus and 'instrumental reason' and the concomitant liquidation of the individual and the basic social institutions and relationships associated with the individual.

The twentieth century triumph of the state-bureaucratic apparatus

Max Horkheimer (1895–1973) was a philosopher and sociologist.

Max Horkheimer (1895–1973) was a philosopher and sociologist. He was a key member of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research.