Critical Theory of Max Horkheimer From mind to eclipse of mind" "

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  • Lecturer .Dr. Khedr D.Qasim

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35167/muja.v0i83.162

Keywords:

Eclipse of mind, Max Horkheimer, Critical theory

Abstract

The research presents the analysis and critique of the "Critical Theory" project, which was formulated by the German philosopher Max Horkheimer (1980-1985) with his colleagues in the 1930s, and grew up until the 1960s. This project, which (through critical mental theorizing) drew the hope of creating a world in which people's needs and activities are organized according to reason and compatible with it.               

But this hope (dream) was also a nightmare. Horkheimer was torn between optimism and pessimism about the future, or as he said: "When the mind is at its highest ... it can only fall into barbarism or history begins." He wanted to derive the critical theory of history from the idea of ​​social organization commensurate with the mind and society, but that idea remained neutral to humanitarian work without being present properly, in individuals or in the general thought of society.

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Published

2018-09-16

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No. 83 (2018)

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