Dialectic Of Enlightenment

Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno's 'Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments' — a foundational text of critical theory, written during World War II in exile in California. The book argues that the Enlightenment's promise of human emancipation through reason reversed into new forms of domination. Key concepts: the culture industry, instrumental reason, the dialectic of myth and enlightenment, anti-Semitism as a case study, and the critique of positivism.

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