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“The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflicy between the emancipated individual of bourgeois society and his fate within that society.”

Quote by Max Horkheimer

Book:Critical Theory: Selected Essays

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Critical Theory: Selected Essays

This book is a compilation of essays that delve into the principles and applications of critical theory across different disciplines. The essays likely cover topics such as cultural analysis, social criticism, and philosophical inquiry, offering insights into the methodologies and concepts that define critical theory. more

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German philosopher and sociologist, one of the founders of the Frankfurt School. Max Horkheimer was born on February 14, 1895, and died on July 7, 1973. He had a profound influence on philosophy, sociology, and critical theory. more

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“Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any experience, the empiricist posits the forms of being as constant.”

Form Materials Judgment Constant Conception Propositions Rationalism Synthetic

Author:Max Horkheimer

“The facts which our senses present to us are socially performed in two ways: through the historical character of the object perceived and through the historical character of the perceiving organ. Both are not simply natural; they are shaped by human activity, and yet the individual perceives himself as receptive and passive in the act of perception.”

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Book:Critical Theory: Selected Essays

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“Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism.”

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“The Revolution won't happen with guns, rather it will happen incrementally, year by year, generation by generation. We will gradually infiltrate their educational institutions and their political offices, transforming them slowly into Marxist entities as we move towards universal egalitarianism.”

“During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense perception is organized, the medium in which it is accomplished, is determined not only by nature but by historical circumstances as well”

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Source: Illuminations

“Only for the sake of the hopeless ones have we been given hope.”

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“There was the pedestrian who wedged himself into the crowd, but there was also the flneur who demanded elbow room and was unwilling to forego the life of the gentleman of leisure. His leisurely appearance as a personality is his protest against the division of labour which makes people into specialists. it was also his protest against their industriousness. Around 1840 it was briefly fashionable to take turtles for a walk in the arcades. the flneurs liked to have the turtles set the pace for them.”

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“If mythic violence is lawmaking, divine violence is law-destroying; if the former sets boundaries, the latter boundlessly destroys them; if mythic violence brings at once guilt and retribution, divine power only expiates; if the former threatens, the latter strikes; if the former is bloody, the latter is lethal without spilling blood”

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Book:Selected Writings: 1913-1926

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“It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close.... There is not enough time remaining for me to write all the letters I would like to write.”

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“In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled.”

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Book:Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writing

Source: Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writing