#max horkheimer

[philosophybits]

When even the dictators of today appeal to reason, they mean that they possess the most tanks. They were rational enough to build them; others should be rational enough to yield to them.

Max Horkheimer, "The End of Reason"

#philosophy #quotes #Max Horkheimer #The End of Reason #force #power #reason #rationality #politics

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

“On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them.” - Adorno/Horkheimer

#frankfurt school #quotes #philosophy #civilization #german #theodore adorno #dialectic of enlightenment #max horkheimer #caution #dangerous #culture creation #how to control the mass of society

[thatswhywelovegermany]

Der Patriotismus in Deutschland ist so furchtbar, weil er grundlos ist.

Patriotism in Germany is so terrible because it is baseless.

Max Horkheimer (1895 – 1973), German social philosopher

#quote #max horkheimer

[tuhafbirkimse]

"Yanlış görebilirsin, yanlış bilebilirsin; hatta yanlış düşünebilirsin ama yanlış hissedemezsin."

Max Horkheimer

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Those who are too weak to make a stand against reality have no choice but to obliterate themselves by identifying with it. They are never rationally reconciled to civilization. Instead, they bow to it, secretly accepting the identity of reason and domination, of civilization and the ideal, however much they may shrug their shoulders. Well-informed cynicism is only another mode of conformity. These people willingly embrace or force themselves to accept the rule of the stronger as the eternal norm.

—Max Horkheimer, The Eclipse of Reason p 113 (1947). Horkheimer's Eclipse of Reason shows how the Nazis built off working class cynicism to make their own radical and murderous political philosophy seem perfectly normal.

[Robert Scott Horton]

#Eclipse of Reason #quotes #Max Horkheimer

[litafficionado]

Responses to "Is there hope?" (via @Samantharhill--and the ensuing thread--on X):

Franz Kafka: Yes, but not for us.

Hannah Arendt: Dreams never do come true.

Walter Benjamin: It's only for those without hope that hope is given.

Max Horkheimer: I do not believe that things will turn out well, but the idea that they might is of decisive importance.

Theodor Adorno: No.

Slavoj Žižek: to those who say “there is light at the end of the tunnel”, I say “yes, and that is probably a train coming in the opposite direction”.

Elie Wiesel: I invent it.

#Franz Kafka #Hannah Arendt #Walter Benjamin #Max Horkheimer #Theodor Adorno #Slavoj Žižek #Elie Wiesel #hope #lit

[alfedena]

"Now since it is has actually happened this way, since harmony and the possibility of progression in capitalist society have been unmasked as the illusion that the critique of the free market economy has always denounced, since despite and because of technological progress the crisis has, as foretold, become permanent, and since the descendants of free businessmen can only maintain their position through the abolition of bourgeois civil freedoms, now the literary opponents of totalitarian society are praising the state to which it owes its existence and denying the theory that uttered its secret when there was still time. No one can expect the émigrés of the world, a world that generates fascism from itself, to hold up a mirror exactly where it still guarantees them asylum. But whoever does not want to talk about capitalism should also be silent about fascism."

Mark Horkheimer, The Jews and Europe

#max horkheimer

[dig-in-your-heels]

man adorno and horkheimer make me want to throw smth but stuart hall?

stuart hall is amazing. he writes simply, effectively. i didn't need to pick up a dictionary(aka my phone) even ONCE when i was doing his reading and i learnt sm. i got to immerse myself in the point he's making w/o being distracted by huge words and i respect him so much for that

academic writing that flows, that's easy to read and understand and yet doesn't dumbify what it's trying to convey can be rare and stuart hall did well at it. <3

#student life #studyblr #student #adorno #max horkheimer #cultural studies #culture industry #stuart hall

[philosophybits]

An intelligent man is not one who can merely reason correctly, but one whose mind is open to perceiving objective contents, who is able to receive the impact of their essential structures and to render it in human language...

Max Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason

#philosophy #quotes #Max Horkheimer #Eclipse of Reason #reason #rationality #perception #objectivity #language

[bocadosdefilosofia]

«La tecnocracia económica lo espera todo de la emancipación de los medios de producción materiales. Platón quiso convertir en amos a los filósofos; los tecnócratas quieren hacer de los ingenieros un consejo de vigilancia de la sociedad. El positivismo es tecnocracia filosófica. Para el positivismo, si se quiere ingresar como miembro en los gremios de la sociedad, es condición previa profesar una fe exclusiva en la matemática. Platón, panegirista de la matemática, concebía a los gobernantes como peritos administrativos, como ingenieros de lo abstracto. De un modo parecido los positivistas tienen a los ingenieros por filósofos de lo concreto, puesto que ellos aplican la ciencia de la cual la filosofía —en la medida en que de algún modo se la tolera— es un mero derivado. Sin desmedro de todas sus diferencias, tanto Platón como los positivistas sostienen la opinión de que el camino para salvar a la humanidad consiste en someterla a las reglas y a los métodos de la razón científica. Los positivistas, empero, adaptan la filosofía a la ciencia, esto es, a las exigencias de la praxis, en lugar de adaptar la praxis a la filosofía. Para ellos el pensar, precisamente cuando funciona como ancilla administrationis, se convierte en rector mundi.»

Max Horkheimer: Crítica de la razón instrumental. Editorial Sur, págs. 70-71. Buenos Aires, 1973.

TGO

@bocadosdefilosofia

@dias-de-la-ira-1

#max horkheimer #crítica de la razón instrumental #positivismo #positivistas #filosofía #filósofos #gobierno de los filósofos #tecnocracia #tecnócratas #tecnocracia económica #tecnocracia filosófica #tecnología #medios de producción #platón #matemática #gobierno #gobernantes #ingenieros #ingeniería #matemáticos #humanidad #razón científica #praxis #teoría crítica #ancilla administratonis #rector mundi #escuela de fráncfort #teo gómez otero

[thatswhywelovegermany]

Es gibt keine Definition der Philosophie. Ihre Definition ist identisch mit der expliziten Darstellung dessen, was sie zu sagen hat.

There is no definition of philosophy. Its definition is identical with the explicit presentation of what it has to say.

Max Horkheimer (1895 – 1973), German social philosopher

#quote #max horkheimer

[universaldoubts]

Romantik als Rettung?

(Assoziationen zur „Dialektik der Aufklärung“ Horkheimer/Adorno)

Keine Aufklärung ohne Reflexion

Zerstört Aufklärung „den Mythos“ ?

(= Rubikon der hygienischen Aufklärung)

Selbstzerstörung ist der Aufklärung inherent.

Zyklen der Aufklärung als unzusammenhängende Phasen?

YinYang-Dynamik?

Aufklärung = „Rechthaben“ = Einsamkeit = keine Reflexion!

Erhalt des Errungenen durch Macht = Materialismus als Grundlage der Aufklärung = falsch, verhängnisvoll.

Deutungshoheit durch Macht.

Instrumentalisierung vs. Idealisierung

#Dialektik der Aufklärung #max horkheimer #adorno #Aufklärung #Reflexion #Yin Yang #Macht #Idealismus #Mythos #Materialismus #deutungshoheit

[yorgunherakles]

zamanın egemen düşüncesi, öz-savunmadır, benliğin korunması; ama ortada korunacak bir benlik kalmamıştır.

horkeimer - akıl tutulması

#Max Horkheimer #akıl tutulması #frankfurt okulu #Walter Benjamin #Bertolt Brecht #brechtyen #Theodor Adorno #Minima Moralia #karl marks #Slavoj Zizek #jacques derrida #Gilles Deleuze #felsefe #felsefe blog #felsefi fragmanlar #kitap #kitap kurdu #kitap blog #byung chul han #palyatif toplum #kötülüğün şeffaflığı #şeffaflık toplumu #adam phillips #jean baudrillard #albert camus #düşüş #bulantı #Milan Kundera #Roland Barthes #blogger

[xonethousandcriesx]

»Die Entwicklung der menschlichen Arbeitsleistungen, Fähigkeiten, ihre Differenzierung und Spezialisierung vollzog sich von den Pharaonen bis Hitler unter der Peitsche der Antreiber. Von den Pyramiden bis zur Reichsautobahn sind die Dokumente der Geschichte ein Ergebnis der politischen Tatsache, dass Nichtarbeitende das Kommando über fremde Arbeitskraft eroberten. Aber nie zuvor war die Tatsache vollständig durchsichtig. Bebel oder Spartakus mussten noch eine spezielle organisierte Propaganda betreiben und um Einsicht werben für etwas, was heute offenkundig ist und keiner Propaganda bedarf. Der Mythus war nie so fadenscheinig. Er war nie so inadäquat.« (Heinz Langerhans 1941. How to Overcome Totalitarianism: 35, in Felix Klopotek 2022. Heinz Langerhans: Die totalitäre Erfahrung. Werkbiographie und Chronik: 135f.)

#heinz langehans #how to overcome totalitarianism #1941 #kritische theorie #dialektik der aufklärung #ideologie #ideologiekritik #institut für sozialforschung #walter benjamin #theodor w. adorno #max horkheimer #entfremdung #adorno #kritik #karl marx #herrschaft #totalität #kapitalismus

[tante-litfass]

#max horkheimer #dlf #das wort zum sonntag #picture quote

[engagemythrusters]

Music and radio need no longer pretend to be art. The truth that they are just business is made into an ideology in order to justify the rubbish they deliberately produce. They call themselves industries; and when their directors’ incomes are published, any doubt about the social utility of the finished products is removed.

Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno in "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947)

#max horkheimer #theodor adorno #the culture industry #dialect of enlightenment