Adorno and horkhiemers dialectic of enlightenment
‘Myth is already enlightenment; and enlightenment reverts to mythology’
(Dialectic of Enlightenment XVI)
Adorno and Horkheimer’s obscure and nihilistic text Dialectic of Enlightenment (DoE) is an attempt to answer the question ‘why mankind, instead of entering a truly human condition, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism’ (DoE, p.xi). The result is a totalising critique of modernity; a diagnosis of why the Enlightenment project failed with no attempt to prescribe a cure. …
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…and Maw Horkheimer: The Dialectic of Enlightenment (Verso: London, 1997).
Theodor Adorno: Negative Dialectics (Routledge: London, 1990)
Jurgen Habermas: The Entwinement of Myth and Enlightenment: Re-reading Dialectic of Enlightenment, in Jay Bernstein (ed.): The Frankfurt School: Critical Assessments vol.3 (Routledge: London, 1994).
Axel Honneth: The Critique of Power: Reflective Stages of Critical Social Theory (M.I.T: Boston, 1991).
Göran Therborn: The Frankfurt School, in New Left Review (ed.): Western Marxism: a Critical Reader (New Left Books: Norfolk, 1977).
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