Horkheimer Max. Dawn & Decline. Notes 1926-1931 and 1950-1969

Translated by Michael Shaw with an Afterword by Eike Gebhardt. — New York: The Seabury Press, 1978. — 252 p. — ISBN 0-8164-9329-4.Horkheimer was a leader of the “Frankfurt School,” a group of philosophers and social scientists associated with the Institute of Social Research in Frankfurt am Main. His work both influenced his contemporaries (including Adorno and Herbert Marcuse) and has had an enduring influence on critical theory’s later practitioners (including Jürgen Habermas, and the Institute’s current director Axel Honneth).The themes explored in Dawn & Decline examine and re-examine the meaning of concepts such as metaphysics, character, morality, personality and the value the human being.