Dialectic of Enlightenment Philosophical Fragments 1st Edition by Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Gunzelin Schmid Noerr ISBN 978-0804788090 0804788090

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ISBN 10: 0804788090 

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Author: Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Gunzelin Schmid Noerr

This new translation of the Frankfurt School’s seminal text includes textual variants and discussion of the work’s influence on Critical Theory.
Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. “What we had set out to do,” the authors write in the Preface, “was nothing less than to explain why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism.”

Yet the work goes far beyond a mere critique of contemporary events. Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer trace a wide arch that connects the birth of Western history—and of subjectivity itself—to the most threatening experiences of the present. The various analyses concern such phenomena as the detachment of science from practical life, formalized morality, the manipulative nature of entertainment culture, and a paranoid behavioral structure, expressed in aggressive anti-Semitism, that marks the limits of enlightenment.

Adorno and Horkheimer see the self-destruction of Western reason as grounded in a historical and fateful dialectic between the domination of external nature and society. They show why the National Socialist terror was not an aberration of modern history but was rooted deepl

Table of contents: 

1. The Concept of Enlightenment
2. Excursus I: Odysseus or Myth and Enlightenment
3. Excursus II: Juliette or Enlightenment and Morality
4. The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
5. Elements of Anti-Semitism: Limits of Enlightenment
6. Notes and Sketches

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