Eclipse of Reason

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by Max Horkheimer

Continuum Publishing

Due/Published February 2005, 144 pages, paper

ISBN 0826477933

The only book that Max Horkheimer wrote during his sojourn in the United States. It is the most lucid and fundamental statement of the Critical Theory propounded by the Frankfurt School. Horkheimer surveys and demonstrates the gradual ascendance of Reason in Western Philosophy, its eventual total application to all spheres of life and what he considers its present reified domination. He shows the paradoxical nature of such a constant application of Reason and how attempts by traditional forces, such as religion, to accommodate themselves to the dominance of Reason only play into the hands of the ruling conditions.