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===Education=== In the spring of 1919, after failing an army physical,<ref name="plato.stanford.edu"/> Horkheimer enrolled at [[Munich University]]. While living in Munich, he was mistaken for the revolutionary playwright [[Ernst Toller]] and arrested and imprisoned.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Horkheimer, Max β Oxford Reference|chapter-url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199532919.001.0001/acref-9780199532919-e-330|doi=10.1093/acref/9780199532919.001.0001|year=2010|isbn=978-0-19-953291-9|chapter=Horkheimer, Max|publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref> After being released, Horkheimer moved to [[Frankfurt am Main]], where he studied [[philosophy]] and [[psychology]] under [[Hans Cornelius]].<ref name="plato.stanford.edu"/> There, he met [[Theodor Adorno]], several years his junior, with whom he would strike a lasting friendship and a collaborative relationship. After an abortive attempt at writing a dissertation on [[Gestalt psychology]], Horkheimer, with Cornelius's direction, completed his doctorate in [[philosophy]] with a 78-page [[dissertation]] titled ''The [[Antinomy]] of [[Teleological]] Judgment'' ({{Lang|de|Zur Antinomie der teleologischen Urteilskraft}}).<ref name="plato.stanford.edu"/><ref name="Sica 2005">Sica, Alan. ''Social Thought: From the Enlightenment to The Present''. Pennsylvania State University: Pearson, Inc. 2005.{{page needed|date=May 2020}}</ref> In 1925, Horkheimer was [[habilitation|habilitated]] with a dissertation entitled ''[[Kant]]'s [[Critique of Judgment]] as Mediation between Practical and Theoretical Philosophy'' ({{Lang|de|Γber Kants Kritik der Urteilskraft als Bindeglied zwischen theoretischer und praktischer Philosophie}}). Here, he met Friedrich Pollock, who would be his colleague at the [[University of Frankfurt Institute for Social Research]]. The following year, Max was appointed ''[[Privatdozent]].'' Shortly after, in 1926, Horkheimer married Rose Riekher.<ref name="Sica 2005"/>
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