Max Horkheimer was a philosopher and sociologist who taught as a professor in Frankfurt am Main in 1930. In 1933, he emigrated to Paris and in 1934 became director of the Institute for Social Research in New York. In 1949, he returned to Frankfurt am Main and from 1954 to 1959 also held a professorship at the University of Chicago. He developed a critical theory of society. His critique of the late-capitalist economic and political system, in particular, strongly influenced the student movement in West Germany in 1968. Horkheimer's works include "Society in Transition," "The Social Function of Philosophy," "Social-Philosophical Studies," and "Critique of Instrumental Reason."
Max Horkheimer was born on February 14, 1895, in Stuttgart and died on July 7, 1973, in Nuremberg.
Location and history: The Max Horkheimer facility is located in the Schelmenwasen forest near Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen.
Max Horkheimer was born in Stuttgart -Zuffenhausen and this green area was named after the philosopher.
Max Horkheimer (born February 14, 1895 in Stuttgart; died July 7, 1973 in Nuremberg) was a German social philosopher and leading head of the Frankfurt School. As director of the Institute for Social Research and editor of the Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung, he sought to implement an interdisciplinary materialistic research program with scientists from different disciplines and an unorthodox understanding of Marx's social theory, which he flagged as critical theory in a programmatic essay in 1937 while he was emigrating to the United States. He later wrote the collection of philosophical essays Dialectic of Enlightenment, together with Theodor W. Adorno, which is considered to be the fundamental work of critical theory.
Horkheimer is considered to be the founder and, together with Adorno, the protagonist of the Frankfurt School and the main proponent of critical theory, a social theory inspired by Hegel, Marx and Freud. However, according to his statement, the first philosopher he trained on was Arthur Schopenhauer. According to Jean Amery, the author kept clean, cool language from its influence.
In the years before emigration, Friedrich Pollock, Erich Fromm and Leo Löwenthal belonged to the inner circle. There was an intellectual exchange with Walter Benjamin, although he was not a direct employee of the institute, through Adorno. Herbert Marcuse, Franz Neumann (political scientist), Otto Kirchheimer and Arkardij Gurland were also temporary employees of the institute during the emigration.
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The fountain ⛲️ at the Max-Horkheimer-Anlage was once restored with a lot of fanfare. Now it lies there in a dilapidated state: dry, out of order and in a semi-neglected state.
How the entire facility is completely demoralizing in 2022: everything is simply left to nature. Horticultural care? Once Upon a time.
Might be reactivated. We find. Then you're welcome to come back here. But now the situation just makes us sad, dear fountain friends!
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