Episode notes
Crane and Helen talk about Horkheimer's 1938 essay "Montaigne and the Function of Skepticism," which sees Horkheimer both show the skeptical core of both religious dogmatism and philosophical skepticism, as well as its changing valence throughout the development of the capitalist mode of production.
Keywords
critical theory
Frankfurt School
Horkheimer
Marxism
Philosophy
Historical Materialism
communism
Hegel
Skepticism
Montaigne