Max Horkheimer (1895 - 1973)
Related: critical theory - cultural elitism - cultural pessimism - culture industry - culture theory - Frankfurt school - Marxism - modernism
Key texts: Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944/1947)
Biography
Max Horkheimer (February 14, 1895 - July 7, 1973) was a German philosopher and sociologist, known especially as the founder and guiding thinker of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Horkheimer [Jun 2005]