The Dialectic of Enlightenment as parody of anti‐enlightenment thought

The Dialectic of Enlightenment as parody of anti‐enlightenment thought

The Dialectic of Enlightenment is a book of paradoxes. The most commonly noted is summed up in the book's preface: "enlightenment reverts to mythology". Progress becomes regression, civilization ends in barbarism. I begin by summing up the intellectual atmosphere in which Horkheimer a...

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Veröffentlicht in:Constellations (Oxford, England) England), 2020-09, Vol.27 (3), p.482-495
1. Verfasser: Evans, Justin
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund (1903-1969)
Age of Enlightenment
Dialectics
Horkheimer, Max (1895-1973)
Philosophy
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Zusammenfassung:The Dialectic of Enlightenment is a book of paradoxes. The most commonly noted is summed up in the book's preface: "enlightenment reverts to mythology". Progress becomes regression, civilization ends in barbarism. I begin by summing up the intellectual atmosphere in which Horkheimer and Adorno wrote Dialectic of Enlightenment, noting some attempts to find other-than-enlightenment foundations for critique.
ISSN:1351-0487
1467-8675
DOI:10.1111/1467-8675.12464