The Long
Insurgency

Traditional and Critical Theory

Max Horkheimer

1937 · Article

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2 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.