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

Sources

Works and records cited in this dossier. Numbered references in the account lead to entries here.

  1. The Frankfurt School: Its History, Theories, and Political Significance Rolf Wiggershaus.
    Sources

    Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History, Theories, and Political Significance, translated by Michael Robertson (MIT Press, 1994; inspected third paperback printing, 1998). A historian's account. Printed page numbers verified in the archive PDF, whose printed pages often occupy two PDF pages.

  2. Traditional and Critical Theory Max Horkheimer.
    Sources

    Max Horkheimer, “Traditional and Critical Theory” (1937), in Critical Theory: Selected Essays, translated by Matthew J. O'Connell for this essay (Continuum reprint, 2002; English copyright 1972), pp. 188–243. The author's own argument. The PDF includes this essay and related texts, not the whole book. Page numbers refer to the printed pages.

  3. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno.
    Sources

    Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments, edited by Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, translated by Edmund Jephcott (Stanford University Press, 2002). Primary text; cited prefaces xiv–xvi and culture-industry chapter pp. 94–97. A scan was checked. Some passages were hard for software to read. No direct quotes were taken from those passages.

  4. The Authoritarian Personality T. W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson and R. Nevitt Sanford.
    Sources

    T. W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson and R. Nevitt Sanford, The Authoritarian Personality (1950; inspected Verso EPUB reissue, 2019). Primary study. Series foreword by Horkheimer and Samuel H. Flowerman, `OEBPS/08Foreword.xhtml`; Horkheimer's preface, `09Preface.xhtml`; ch. I, §A “The Problem,” `11Chapter01.xhtml`; ch. VIII, sampling-bias discussion, `19Chapter08.xhtml`. These are chapter/section/fragment locators, not invented EPUB page numbers.

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