Max Horkheimer Quotes on Politics
Max Horkheimer was a 20th-century German philosopher and sociologist, the founder of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt and the central organising figure of what became known as the Frankfurt School of critical theory. This page collects quotes attributed to Max Horkheimer on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Max Horkheimer:
“The fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.”
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Attributed to Max Horkheimer:
“The function of critical theory is to facilitate the historical process by which mankind becomes conscious of itself.”
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Attributed to Max Horkheimer:
“What is at stake is not the conservation of the past, but the redemption of the hopes of the past.”
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“Whoever desires to live among men has to obey their laws—this is what the secular morality of Western civilization comes down to. … Rationality in the form of such obedience swallows up everything, even the freedom to think.”
"The End of Reason" (1941) | p. 29.