Horkheimer’s vision in his inaugural lecture was that philosophy should open up a synoptic, critical view of human life that empirical research and interdisciplinary work might fill in

We are not here to provide principles or foundations or deep theoretical diagnoses, or a synoptic vision.

A synoptic view of the current crisis would say

a rather synoptic voraciousness

Part Two presents a synoptic critique of capitalism, which identifies the problems for which socialism purports to be a solution

Such complexity poses a challenge to synoptic presentation