The Disaster of Half-Education
The hypostatization of limited knowledge as truth marshaled to cover over the contradictions of capitalism.
Throughout their work Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno attempted to make sense of the tendencies of what they called “the new anthropological type.” At times, they described this new kind of capitalist subject as an actual psychological type very reminiscent of the Left’s stereotyped Trump supporter: this type rigidly adheres to conventional values; be…
