biography
pronunciation:
[haw(r)khiymer]
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| (1895–1973)
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| biography:
| Philosopher and social theorist, born in Stuttgart, SW Germany. He studied at Frankfurt, where he was director of the Institute for Social Research (1930–3) (the ‘Frankfurt school’). He moved with the school to New York City when the Nazis came to power, and returned to Frankfurt in 1950 as professor at the university. He published a series of influential articles in the 1930s, collected in two volumes under the title Kritische Theorie (1968), which expound the basic principles of the school in their critique of industrial civilization. His other major works include Dialektik der Aufklärung (1947, Dialectic of Enlightenment), with Adorno, and Eclipse of Reason (1947). |
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