Mandeville, the Frankfurt School, and Yves Simon on Authority and Liberty

A Counterpoint to Bernard Mandeville’s Deceitful Doctrine of Man and to the Frankfurt School’s Irrational Dialectical Anthropology: The Frigid Equivocations, Psycho-Cultural Subversion, Seductive Despair.

A Commentary on Two Revolutionary and Neo-Sophist Texts of the Frankfurt School and the British Tavistock Institute, Respectively: Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944, 1947); and The Dialectics of Liberation (1967, 1968, 1969) – Considered in the Longer Light of Bernard Mandeville’s “Fable of the Bees” and “An Enquiry Into the Origin of Moral Virtue” (1723, 2nd Edition); and of Yves Simon’s The Nature and Functions of Authority (1940).

Mandeville, the Frankfurt School, and Yves Simon on Authority and Liberty