In May 2021, a new edition of Horkheimer’s seminal essay “Traditional and critical theory” will be published in the Great Papers Philiosophie-series by Reclam, including my detailed afterword. For more information, visit Reclam’s website.
“Mankind has already been abandoned by a science which in its imaginary self-sufficiency thinks of the shaping of practice, which it serves and to which it belongs, simply as something lying outside its borders and is content with this separation of thought and action.” (Max Horkheimer)