SOCI 2040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, Immanuel Kant
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Pages 397-427: critical theorists find the progress of modern society to be a source of domination and dehumanization. For them culture, science, and technology are ideological forces that distort consciousness and thus prevent individuals from recognizing and satisfying their own true human interests: they saw modern societies as conformist populations that had been pacified by. He felt ill to ever become a capitalist and there is a quote on 398 explaining his personal identification with the injustices suffered by those without money. Herbert marcuse (1898-1979: he joined a socialist party that represented working class interests, all three theorists were solified through their association with the institute for. Commonalities between the theorists: together they reshaped the direction of the institute by changing what was initially a diverse empirically oriented research program dedicated to reappraising marxist theory in light of the defeat of the communist revolution.
