The Long
Insurgency

Dossier · 1911–1950

Max Horkheimer

Max Horkheimer: research directed toward a different society

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Chronology

1911–1950

Sources

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

  1. The State of Contemporary Social Philosophy and the Tasks of an Institute for Social Research Max Horkheimer. 1931.
    Sources

    Max Horkheimer, “The State of Contemporary Social Philosophy and the Tasks of an Institute for Social Research” (1931), trans. Peter Wagner, in Stephen Eric Bronner and Douglas MacKay Kellner, eds., Critical Theory and Society: A Reader (Routledge, 1989), pp. 25–36, especially 31–36; inspected PDF pp. 36–47.

  2. Traditional and Critical Theory Max Horkheimer. 1937.
    Sources

    Max Horkheimer, “Traditional and Critical Theory” (1937), trans. Matthew J. O'Connell, Critical Theory: Selected Essays (Continuum, 2002 reprint of English translation copyright 1972), pp. 188–243, especially 206–219 and 241–243; inspected excerpt PDF pp. 22–35 and 57–59. “Postscript,” pp. 244–252, begins PDF p. 60. The archive file contains this essay and postscript, not the whole collection.

  3. The History of the IfS Institute for Social Research. Undated; accessed October 16, 2026.
    Sources

    Institut für Sozialforschung, “The History of the IfS,” Foundation and Exile sections, accessed October 20, 2026, https://www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/history.html. Institutional retrospective; used for the closure and move, not as evidence of the author's personal aims.

  4. The Authoritarian Personality
    Sources

    T. W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson and R. Nevitt Sanford, The Authoritarian Personality (1950), Verso electronic edition, 2019, series title/front matter and chapter I, sections A and B, especially “The Groups Studied.” Series foreword pp. lxvii–lxx (OEBPS/08_Foreword.xhtml); Horkheimer's preface pp. lxxi–lxxvi (OEBPS/09_Preface.xhtml); chapter I, pp. 1–28 (OEBPS/11_Chapter01.xhtml), especially the nonrepresentative-sample explanation at printed pp. 22–23. Original 1950 participant statements are kept separate from the edition's 2019 introduction.

  5. Max Horkheimer and the Foundations of the Frankfurt School John Abromeit. 2011.
    Sources

    John Abromeit, Max Horkheimer and the Foundations of the Frankfurt School (Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 3–5, 19–25, 34–40, 46–53, 61–69, 142–144 and 186–189; inspected PDF pp. 19–21, 35–41, 50–56, 62–69, 77–85, 158–160 and 202–205. Early letters, fiction and interviews are examined through Abromeit's scholarly account; their archival originals were not independently inspected for this revision. Scholarly reconstruction of early life and intellectual development.

  6. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
    Sources

    Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments, ed. Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, trans. Edmund Jephcott (Stanford University Press, 2002), preface to 1944/1947, pp. xiv–xix; PDF pp. 15–20. Culture-industry chapter pp. 94–97; PDF pp. 115–118. The inspected copy has annotations and damaged OCR on some chapter pages; the argument here also appears in the clean preface. The 1969 preface distinguishes later views from the wartime text. The editor's afterword, p. 217/PDF p. 238, identifies the limited 1944 typescript and 1947 printed edition; this publication history is a scholarly editorial account.

  7. Eclipse of Reason
    Sources

    Max Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason (1947), Continuum edition, 2004, Preface pp. v–vi/PDF pp. 6–7 and “Means and Ends,” pp. 3–8/PDF pp. 12–17. English original; the preface is signed March 1946, a date distinct from the 1944 lectures and 1947 publication. The complete 2004 edition was inspected; the separately cataloged 2013 publisher preview is not substituted for it.

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