Max Horkheimer
Born in 1901
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Max Horkheimer was a prominent German philosopher and sociologist, best known as a leader of the Frankfurt School.
He served as director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt from 1930-1933 and 1949-1958, with a period of exile in between.
Horkheimer's most famous work is Dialectic of Enlightenment, co-authored with Theodor Adorno.
His writings from the 1930s were crucial in developing the epistemological and methodological foundations of Frankfurt School critical theory.
Horkheimer's work influenced contemporaries like Adorno and Herbert Marcuse, as well as later critical theorists such as Jürgen Habermas and Axel Honneth.
