Max Horkheimer

20.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
96 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Max Horkheimer is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy and Literature and Literary Theory. According to data from OpenAlex, Max Horkheimer has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 21 papers in Philosophy and 14 papers in Literature and Literary Theory. Recurrent topics in Max Horkheimer's work include German Literature and Culture Studies (10 papers), Critical Theory and Philosophy (9 papers) and Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel (8 papers). Max Horkheimer is often cited by papers focused on German Literature and Culture Studies (10 papers), Critical Theory and Philosophy (9 papers) and Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel (8 papers). Max Horkheimer collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, Ukraine and Colombia. Max Horkheimer's co-authors include Theodor W. Adorno, Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, Edmund Jephcott, Thomas McCarthy, Alfred Schmidt, Martin Jay, John Cumming, T. W. Adorno, Geoffrey Pearson and Zoltán Tar and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and American Sociological Review.

In The Last Decade

Max Horkheimer

77 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

Critical theory : selected essays 1969 2026 1988 2007 1972 2002 1972 2020 1969 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Critical theory : selected essays
    1972 765 citations Max Horkheimer profile →
  2. Dialectic of enlightenment : philosophical fragments
    2002 736 citations Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno et al. Stanford University Press eBooks profile →
  3. Critical Theory
    1972 526 citations Max Horkheimer profile →
  4. Dialectic of Enlightenment
    2020 285 citations Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno Stanford University Press eBooks profile →
  5. Dialektik der Aufklärung : philosophische Fragmente
    1969 190 citations Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Max Horkheimer Brazil 19 1.8k 666 532 447 272 96 3.5k
Herbert Marcuse United States 24 1.6k 0.9× 588 0.9× 455 0.9× 358 0.8× 196 0.7× 130 3.1k
Antonio Gramsci Chile 21 2.4k 1.3× 882 1.3× 273 0.5× 466 1.0× 279 1.0× 96 4.0k
Peter Burke United States 36 1.8k 1.0× 867 1.3× 269 0.5× 347 0.8× 442 1.6× 290 5.0k
Michel de Certeau 21 1.9k 1.0× 574 0.9× 392 0.7× 255 0.6× 576 2.1× 75 4.4k
Edmund Jephcott 12 1.5k 0.8× 526 0.8× 370 0.7× 166 0.4× 323 1.2× 24 2.9k
James M. Gustafson United States 17 1.5k 0.8× 388 0.6× 249 0.5× 421 0.9× 136 0.5× 68 3.6k
Cornélius Castoriadis France 20 1.5k 0.8× 547 0.8× 249 0.5× 269 0.6× 131 0.5× 100 2.7k
William E. Connolly United States 27 1.9k 1.1× 1.2k 1.8× 480 0.9× 224 0.5× 149 0.5× 94 3.4k
Louis Althusser United States 18 2.7k 1.5× 857 1.3× 906 1.7× 613 1.4× 602 2.2× 120 5.0k
Isaiah Berlín United Kingdom 25 1.6k 0.9× 1.5k 2.3× 773 1.5× 362 0.8× 143 0.5× 129 4.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Horkheimer, Max & Theodor W. Adorno. (2014). Le laboratoire de la Dialectique de la raison. Presses de l’Université de Montréal eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Horkheimer, Max, et al.. (2014). Zu diesem Heft. Leviathan. 42(1). 3–6. 1 indexed citations
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Horkheimer, Max, et al.. (2012). PROJETO DE PESQUISA SOBRE O ANTISSEMITISMO: A IDÉIA DO PROJETO.
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Adorno, Theodor W. & Max Horkheimer. (2010). Towards a New Manifesto?. New left review. 2(65). 33–61. 25 indexed citations
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Horkheimer, Max. (2005). On Bergson's metaphysics of time. Radical philosophy. 131. 7 indexed citations
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Horkheimer, Max, Theodor W. Adorno, Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, & Edmund Jephcott. (2002). Dialectic of enlightenment : philosophical fragments. Stanford University Press eBooks. 736 indexed citations breakdown →
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Horkheimer, Max, et al.. (2002). Crítica de la Razón Instrumental. 59 indexed citations
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Horkheimer, Max, Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, & Jan Baars. (1996). Nachträge, Verzeichnisse und Register. S. Fischer eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Horkheimer, Max, et al.. (1990). Commitment to higher education : seven West European thinkers on the essence of the university. 11 indexed citations
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Horkheimer, Max & Alfred Schmidt. (1987). Vorlesung über die Geschichte der neueren Philosophie. S. Fischer eBooks.
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Horkheimer, Max & Gunzelin Schmid Noerr. (1987). Philosophische Frühschriften, 1922-1932. S. Fischer eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Horkheimer, Max & Gunzelin Schmid Noerr. (1985). Vorträge und Aufzeichnungen, 1949-1973 : 4. Soziologisches, 5. Universität und Studium. S. Fischer eBooks.
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Horkheimer, Max, Helmut Dubiel, & Alfons Söllner. (1981). Wirtschaft, Recht und Staat im Nationalsozialismus : Analysen des Instituts für Sozialforschung, 1939-1942. Europäische Verlagsanstalt eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Jay, Martin, et al.. (1977). L'imagination dialectique : histoire de l'École de Francfort et de l'Institut de Recherches Sociales (1923-1950). Payot eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Horkheimer, Max. (1976). El Estado autoritario. 167–188. 2 indexed citations
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Horkheimer, Max. (1974). "Aus der Pubertät : Novellen und Tagebuchblätter" 1914-1918. S. Fischer eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Horkheimer, Max, Claude Maillard, & Sibylle Müller. (1974). Théorie traditionnelle et théorie critique. Gallimard eBooks. 14 indexed citations
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Horkheimer, Max. (1972). The social function of philosophy. Radical philosophy. 3. 2 indexed citations
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Horkheimer, Max, et al.. (1971). Anfänge der bürgerlichen Geschichtsphilosophie : Hegel und das Problem der Metaphysik : Montaigne und die Funktion der Skepsis. 1 indexed citations
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Adorno, Theodor W. & Max Horkheimer. (1963). Zeugnisse : Theodor W. Adorno zum sechzigsten Geburtstag. Europäische Verlagsanstalt eBooks. 2 indexed citations

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