Reviews for The production of society

The average rating for The production of society based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-09-28 00:00:00 Peter Martin Horkheimer doesn't come out of this looking very good at all. He thumps his chest over the ethical and political degradation of the modern world in his writings, while refusing to get involved in political matters or discussions, and rebuking his colleagues who do. This includes screwing the young Habermas out of a job because he was too "left wing". WTF? The book also details Horkwhiner's control over the institute's finances, and the way he made sure he could maximally exploit the time and energies of others working within the institute by manipulating them into accepting paltry salaries. A Marxist academic who's main desires seem to be to protect the cash and find a peaceful place to write melancholic philosophy. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a douchebag. Adorno doesn't look much better either. I get it, Fascism was really really bad. But dude, jazz and sitcoms aren't the end of the world. Now I understand why Hannah Arendt hated him and said he was one of the worst people she'd ever met. I'm not sure how the neo-Nazis and other conservatives came to the conclusion that these guys were at the head of a vicious Jewish conspiracy to undermine America with so called "Cultural Marxism". This book makes them look completely ineffective as political thinkers and terrified by their own shadows. Hats off to Wiggerhaus for his honest and thorough scholarship. The book's far more balanced than I've probably made it seem here. It's bit sloppily written (or translated?) at times, which is forgivable, and he had this annoying tendency to smash out long lists of questions which snowball into more and more unanswered questions. I guess he's offering research topics. It's a great book all the same.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-09-09 00:00:00 Mark Easley ¡Excelente! Hay una excelente mezcla entre el contenido teórico y el desarrollo histórico de la Escuela Francfort. Lectura imprescindible.