Max Horkheimer and Eric Voegelin

an exposition and critical counterpoint

Authors

  • Gabriel Marini Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/0872-0851_67_2

Keywords:

Critical Theory, Continental Philosophy, Conservatism, Voegelin

Abstract

Max Horkheimer and Eric Voegelin were important German expatriate philosophers that found intellectual success in the United States, even while occupying opposed ideological positions. This essay aims to expose, via the reconstruction of arguments from selected texts, some thesis from both authors, focusing specially on The Eclipse of Reason and some previous texts for Horkheimer and on The New Science of Politics and some posterior texts for Voegelin.

In the end, as a conclusion, are presented some possible resemblances – probably more acute ones than those traditionally expected when we compare Marxist authors with intellectuals embraced by the political conservative movement – and clear divergences between both, being those guided by differences of styles, methods and presuppositions.

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Published

2025-03-25

Issue

Vol. 34 No. 67 (2025): Revista Filosófica de Coimbra Vol. 34 Nº 67

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