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Title: | Towards an Understanding of Max Horkheimer |
Authors: | Marshall, John |
Advisor: | Beattie, Catherine |
Department: | Philosophy |
Keywords: | Philosophy;Philosophy |
Publication Date: | Apr-1999 |
Abstract: | <p>Due in large part to the writings of Jurgen Habermas, the philosophy of Max Horkheimer has recently undergone a re-examination. Although numerous thinkers have partaken in this re-examination, much of the discussion has occurred within a framework of debate established by Habermas' narrative of Horkheimer's philosophy. This thesis seeks to broaden that framework through a thorough, critical examination of Habermas' accounts. In chapter one, I survey Habermas' narrative centering on his treatment of the pivotal years in the 1940s. In chapter two, I expand on these years and argue that in contrast to Habermas' assertion that Horkheimer commits a performative contradiction, he instead engages in a logically consistent form of critique. In chapter three I discuss the later writings of Horkheimer and argue that the conception of philosophy contained therein is a continuation of his philosophy of the 1940s. Finally, in the conclusion I point to the implications which the above should have for Horkheimerian studies in general.</p> |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/13840 |
Identifier: | opendissertations/8672 9770 4950047 |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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