[BOOK][B] Dialectic of enlightenment

M Horkheimer, TW Adorno, G Noeri - 2002 - books.google.com
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. Historically remote developments, indeed, the birth of …

[BOOK][B] Dialectic of enlightenment

TW Adorno, M Horkheimer - 1997 - books.google.com
Dialectic of Enlightenment is, quite justifiably, one of the most celebrated and often cited
works of modern social philosophy. It has been identified as the keystone of the'Frankfurt
School', of which Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer were the leading members, and
does not cease to impress in its wide-ranging ambition and panache. Adorno and
Horkheimer addressees themselves to a question which went to the very heart of the
modern age, namely'why mankind, instead of entering into a truly human condition, is …