Critique of Instrumental Reason

Critique of Instrumental Reason
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 177
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ISBN-10 : 9781781680353
ISBN-13 : 1781680353
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Download or read book Critique of Instrumental Reason written by Max Horkheimer and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays, written between 1949 and 1967, focus on a single theme: the triumph in the twentieth century of the state-bureaucratic apparatus and ‘instrumental reason’ and the concomitant liquidation of the individual and the basic social institutions and relationships associated with the individual.


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