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Max Horkheimer. Academic Studies at University
Max Horkheimer, a prominent German social thinker and one of the founders of critical social theory, delivered his speech "Academic Study at the University" to future students of Goethe University Frankfurt at the graduation ceremony on 12 May 1952.
Vitalii Bryzhnik
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O eclipse do imaginário: imaginário instrumental e redução da potência imaginativa das imagens
Partindo do apontamento de Gilbert Durand acerca do iconoclasmo promovido pela conjunção entre monoteísmo e filosofia no ocidente o qual paradoxalmente produz a proliferação das imagens na contemporaneidade, o artigo dialoga com Horkheimer a partir da ...
Maurício Ribeiro da Silva
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The Sociology of AI as an Emerging Field: Mapping Tensions and Boundaries
ABSTRACT The expanding role of artificial intelligence (AI) in social life compels a foundational reassessment of sociology's concepts, methods, and theoretical commitments. From generative language models to predictive policing, AI systems are no longer mere tools but increasingly agentic, opaque, and normative sociotechnical actors.
Canhui Liu
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The Social Truth of Schopenhauer's ‘Metaphysics of Pity’: Compassion and Critical Theory
Abstract Taking Horkheimer and Adorno's account of pity in the Dialectic of Enlightenment as my starting point, I show that Schopenhauer's compassion‐based moral theory exemplifies key elements of this account. In particular, this moral theory will be shown to possess a social truth for Horkheimer and Adorno because it is an expression of a wrong ...
David James
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ABSTRACT This paper addresses stories of surveillance of Brazilian critical/radical geographers, drawing on innovative sources. That is, the folders and reports through which the political police and related institutions watched critical and radical scholars during the 20th century in all Brazilian states and abroad, under both ‘dictatorial’ and ...
Federico Ferretti, Guilherme Ribeiro
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TEORI SOSIAL DALAM PERSPEKTIF TEORI KRITIS MAX HORKHEIMER
In this work, “Horkheimer’s critical theory” is critically discussed in its relation with the presence of “prestigious” fact achieved by positivistic sciences.
Sindung Tjahyadi
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Alienation as a Social Pathology: Evaluating Jaeggi's Concept of Alienation
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Wouter Wiersma
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Immanent Critique in Political Education: Indoctrination or Emancipation?
ABSTRACT This article assesses whether critical political education, which immanently criticizes society, is able to avoid the challenge of indoctrination. For this purpose, the article reconstructs premises of critical political education, contemporary theories of immanent critique, and criteria of indoctrination.
Antti Moilanen
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Claus Offe (1940–2025): A Tribute to His Academic Work and His Role as a Political Intellectual
Constellations, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 155-162, June 2026.
Tine Stein
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Political Epistemology without Apologies
Abstract Political epistemology has become a popular field of research in recent years. It sets itself the ambitious task to intertwine epistemology with social and political theory in order to do justice to the relationships between truth and politics, or reason and power.
Frieder Vogelmann
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