Max Horkheimer (14 Februarie 1895 – 7 Julie 1973) was 'n Duitse filosoof en sosioloog wat bekend was vir sy werk in kritieseteorie, en 'n lid van die Frankfurt Skool. Authority and the Family (1936) Traditional and Critical Theory (1937) Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947) - met Theodor Adorno ISBN 978-0-8264-0093-2 Eclipse of Reason (1947) (orig. 1941 "The End of Reason" Studies in Philosophy and Social Sciences Vol. IX) ISBN 978-1-4437-3041-9 Egoism and the Freedom Movement The Longing for the Totally Other Critique of Instrumental Reason (1967) ISBN 978-0-8264-0088-8 Critical Theory: Selected Essays (1972) ISBN 978-0826400833 Dawn & Decline (1978) ISBN 978-0-8164-9329-6 Zoltán Tarr, The Frankfurt School: The Critical Theories of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, Transaction Publishers, 2011, p. 52.