Dialectic of Enlightenment
This is a new, improved translation of the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Adorno and Horkheimer aimed ""to explain why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism.""
1 online resource (305 pages)
9780804788090, 080478809X
1039704424
Cover; Contents; Preface to the New Edition (1969); Preface to the Italian Edition (1962/1966); Preface (1944 and 1947); The Concept of Enlightenment; Excursus I: Odysseus or Myth and Enlightenment; Excursus II: Juliette or Enlightenment and Morality; The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception; Elements of Anti-Semitism: Limits of Enlightenment; Notes and Sketches; Editor's Afterword; The Disappearance of Class History in ""Dialectic of Enlightenment"": A Commentary on the Textual Variants (1944 and 1947); Notes