Dialectic of Enlightenment

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Dialectic of Enlightenment is a seminal 1947 philosophical work by Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer that critiques how Enlightenment rationality can lead to new forms of domination and barbarism in modern society.

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instanceOf book
philosophical work
author Max Horkheimer
Theodor W. Adorno
centralClaim Enlightenment rationality can turn into new forms of domination
Instrumental reason contributes to social regression and barbarism
Mass culture functions as a culture industry that manipulates consciousness
Myth and Enlightenment are dialectically intertwined
countryOfOrigin Germany
firstPublishedAs Philosophische Fragmente
genre critical theory
philosophy of history
social philosophy
hasEnglishTranslation Dialectic of Enlightenment self-linksurface differs
surface form: Dialectic of Enlightenment (English edition)
hasPart Elements of Anti-Semitism
Excursus I: Odysseus or Myth and Enlightenment
Excursus II: Juliette or Enlightenment and Morality
The Concept of Enlightenment
Dialectic of Enlightenment self-linksurface differs
surface form: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
influenced Jürgen Habermas
contemporary critical theory
cultural studies
media theory
influencedBy G. W. F. Hegel
Immanuel Kant
Karl Marx
Sigmund Freud
mainSubject Age of Enlightenment
surface form: Enlightenment

barbarism
culture industry
domination
instrumental reason
rationality
movement Frankfurt School
notableConcept culture industry
dialectic of myth and Enlightenment
instrumental reason
originalLanguage German
philosophicalTheme anti-Semitism
critique of positivism
mass culture
reason and myth
philosophicalTradition Western Marxism
critical theory
placeOfPublication Amsterdam
publicationYear 1947
publisher Querido Verlag
timePeriodAddressed late capitalism
modernity
translator John Cumming

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Theodor W. Adorno notableWork Dialectic of Enlightenment
Theodor W. Adorno coAuthorOf Dialectic of Enlightenment
Max Horkheimer notableWork Dialectic of Enlightenment
Dialectic of Enlightenment hasPart Dialectic of Enlightenment self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
Dialectic of Enlightenment hasEnglishTranslation Dialectic of Enlightenment self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Dialectic of Enlightenment (English edition)
Minima Moralia mainTheme Dialectic of Enlightenment
this entity surface form: dialectics of enlightenment
Minima Moralia relatedWork Dialectic of Enlightenment
Negative Dialectics relatedWork Dialectic of Enlightenment
Aesthetic Theory relatedWork Dialectic of Enlightenment
Philosophy of New Music relatedWork Dialectic of Enlightenment
In Search of Wagner relatedWork Dialectic of Enlightenment
critique of instrumental reason relatedWork Dialectic of Enlightenment
subject surface form: Critique of instrumental reason