Fascism

Max Horkheimer famously defined the social function of philosophy as a “critique of the establishment” (“Die gesellschaftliche Funktion der Philosophie,” GS 4, 332–351, 344: “Die wahre gesellschaftliche Funktion der Philosophie liegt in der Kritik des Bestehenden.”). Philosophy critiques established truth claims by revealing their immanent failures and by pushing philosophers to overcome them. But is…