On Max Horkheimer

New Perspectives

edited by Seyla Benhabib, Wolfgang Bonfi, and

John McCole

The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts

London, England

Contents

1 Introduction

Max Horhheimer: Between Philosophy and Social Science

John McCole, Seyla Benhabib, and Wolfgang BonB

1 Science, Methodology, and Research Paradigms in the
Development of Horkheimer's Work
2 Max Horkheimer's Intellectual Physiognomy
Alfred Schmidt

25

3 Remarks on the Development of Horkheimer's Work

Jiirgen Habermas

49

4 Dialectical Positivism of Happiness: Horkheimer's

Materialist Deconstruction of Philosophy
Hauke Brunkhorst

67

5 The Program of Interdisciplinary Research and the

Beginnings of Critical Theory
Wolfgang BonB

99

6 The Idea of a Critical Theory and Its Relation to

Philosophy
Thomas McCarthy

127

7 Stranded at the Crossroads of Dehumanization: John

Desmond Bernal and Max Horkheimer
WolfSchafer

153

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II Reason, Domination, and the Fate of Emancipation in

Horkheimer's Mature Work
8 Max Horkheimer and the Sociological Deficit of Critical
Theory
Axel Honneth

187

9 Critical Theory and Political Economy

Moishe Postone and Barbara Brick

215

10 The Long Friendship: On Theoretical Differences

between Adorno and Horkheimer
Stefan Breuer

257

11 Max Horkheimer and the Moral Philosophy of

German Idealism
Herbert Schnadelbach

281

12 "Mystical Aura": Imagination and the Reality of the

"Maternal" in Horkheimer's Writings
Mechthild Rumpf

309

13 Reason and the "Other": Horkheimer's Reflections

on Anti-Semitism and Mass Annihilation
Dan Diner

335

14 Mass Culture and Aesthetic Redemption: The Debate

between Max Horkheimer and Siegfried Kracauer
Martin Jay

364

15 The Failure of Self-Realization: An Interpretation of

387

Horkheimer's Eclipse of Reason

Georg Lohmann
Bibliography of Max Horkheimer's Works

413

Acknowledgments

421

Contributors

423

Index

427