Description A series critical essays that connect the rise of Enlightenment thinking with the emergence of state bureaucratic apparatuses that oppress human societies through a distinctive form of ‘instrumental rationality’. Creator Horkheimer, Max Publisher New […]
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Machine and Organism
Description Canguilhem inverts the normal scientific question–what is the mechanism underlying this organic process?–and asks how machines are organic. He traces the history of the relationships between organism and machine from the ancient Greek political […]
Critical Theory: Essays
Description Collection of Horkhiemer’s early essays that define the program of critical theory. Includes seminal essays such as “Traditional and Critical Theory” and “The Latests Attacks on Metaphysics,” providing background and context for many of […]
Traces on the Rhodian Shore: Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century
Description Remains, even after half a century, the most comprehensive serious general survey available of the development of intellectual and scientific attitudes toward nature in the history of western civilization from antiquity up to the […]