The Long
Insurgency

Dossier · 1930–1937

Max Horkheimer

The director who made social research a project for changing society

Chronology

1930–1937

193019341937
3 dated events
  1. Horkheimer becomes Institute director Reported · Source 1, p. 36; PDF pp. 87–88
  2. Horkheimer gives his opening lecture Reported · Source 1, p. 38; PDF p. 91
  3. Traditional and Critical Theory appears Reported · Source 2, Essay title and bibliography, 1937 publication

Activity

A research program in exile

Horkheimer’s opening lecture called for work across philosophy and the social sciences. The Institute continued that work after moving to New York in 1934. [1], pp. 38–39, 143–148

During American exile, he and Adorno wrote Dialectic of Enlightenment. The inspected edition includes prefaces to its 1944 and 1947 forms. [3], pp. xiv–xvi

He also wrote the preface to The Authoritarian Personality. He described the study as a joint undertaking of the Institute and the Berkeley Public Opinion Study. [4], Horkheimer preface, institutional-partnership paragraph