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The Critique of Instrumental Reason

Horkheimer, Marcuse, and Adorno

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ID20083399
AuthorsMax Horkheimer (corresponding author)
Year2016
Pages97-113
Publication date2016-04-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueReason after its eclipse (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Wisconsin Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/jj.36032580.9
OpenAlexW773108962
ISBN9780299306533
LanguageEN
Citations received88

These essays, written between 1949 and 1967, focus on a single theme: the triumph in the twentieth century of the state-bureaucratic apparatus and 'instrumental reason' and the concomitant liquidation of the individual and the basic social institutions and relationships associated with the individual

Bureaucracy · Econometrics · Economics · Epistemology · Focus (optics) · Instrumental variable · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Theme (computing) · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism

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Citations per year1,96
Citation span1981 - 2026 (46)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 43

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