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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 81–89.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Jeffrey Herf The word critical as applied to the theory of the Frankfurt School applies to the views of capitalism and the Enlightenment in Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno's classic work, Dialectic of Enlightenment . The absence of reference to the specificities of German history...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 155–179.
Published: 01 February 2018
...Katherine C. Bermingham Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment laid indispensable groundwork for critiquing instrumental rationality and the power dynamics embedded in discursive logic. Especially relevant for feminist theorists is the pair’s excursus on Homer’s Odyssey...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (3 (153)): 1–19.
Published: 01 November 2024
... and enlightenment, and overlooks the significant role played by Odysseus’s cunning in the development of reason. In addressing these problems, it becomes apparent that cunning is a form of mimetic intelligence and bears its own form of dialectic, which has implications for the understanding of Adorno’s later works...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 107–138.
Published: 01 August 2020
... of reification, which is defended against Honneth’s definition of this concept. Based on an interpretation of passages in Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment and Adorno’s notion of “working through the past,” the article claims that reification should be understood as a forgetting...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 177–204.
Published: 01 August 2021
... with Adorno’s correspondence with Max Horkheimer sheds light on Spengler as an overlooked key (next to Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, and Walter Benjamin) to their Dialectic of Enlightenment , written in 1941–44. Adorno’s daring effort to appropriate Spengler’s analysis of Caesarism makes Adorno’s critical theory...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 207–227.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Esther Oluffa Pedersen In giving a philosophical account of the rise of National Socialism in early- and mid-twentieth-century Germany, many philosophers have pointed to myth as an explanatory feature. The work of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno in the Dialectic of Enlightenment is renowned...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (1 (142)): 71–102.
Published: 01 February 2021
...). Copyright © 2021 by New German Critique, Inc. 2021 antihumanism aesthetics dialectic of enlightenment modernism negative dialectics The whole futile body was suffused by transparency. Little by little the body turned into light. Its blood into a beam. Its limbs froze in an unintelligible...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 29–41.
Published: 01 February 2013
... is minimal (DE, 7).
The first chapter ofDialectic of Enlightenment shows that the dialectic
of religion constitutes the earliest, prescientific moments of the disenchant-
ment of the world. But Horkheimer and Adorno’s account of Judaism compli-
cates this narrative, because they oppose Judaism...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 1–29.
Published: 01 February 2023
...—had the dialectic of enlightenment been comprehended within the dialectics of nature, had the fossils not been forgotten—the Frankfurt School might have surpassed this contradiction between nature and society, which they criticized but never quite overcame. ________ Horkheimer took up...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 203–222.
Published: 01 November 2016
...) . ———. 2002 . Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments , translated by Jephcott Edmund . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . ———. 2006 . History and Freedom: Lectures, 1964–1965 , translated by Livingstone Rodney . Malden, MA : Polity . ———. 2010 . Negative...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 159–178.
Published: 01 February 2006
...?—differs radically from the position to
which animals, in Adorno’s reading, were relegated by Kant’s idealism, which
positions the animal as radical other to the human.
In Dialectic of Enlightenment Horkheimer and Adorno describe how
nature and animals are tied to their abilities to articulate...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 5–26.
Published: 01 November 2016
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to nominalism in Adorno’s oeuvre, which appear in many different settings.
First, I will look at those in purely philosophical contexts. In their critique of
the reduction of the Enlightenment to instrumental reason in Dialectic of
Enlightenment, Max Horkheimer and Adorno accused nominalism of going
too...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 175–201.
Published: 01 November 2016
... – 86 . Horkheimer Max Adorno Theodor W. . 1986 . Dialektik der Aufklärung. Vol. 3 of Adorno, Gesammelte Schriften , edited by Tiedemann Rolf . Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp . ———. 1997 . Dialectic of Enlightenment , translated by Cummings John . London : Verso...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 119–148.
Published: 01 February 2013
... suppression by the formal rationality of “Enlightenment,”
Derrida and his followers, although they take great interest in Hegel, do not
follow his method—they prefer to avoid the overly logical language of nega-
tions and contradictions.1 They reject historical narratives of a dialectical kind...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (3 (144)): 1–30.
Published: 01 November 2021
... ego and nature as its antagonist. In this way, in Eclipse of Reason , Horkheimer can confidently advocate nonidentity thinking as the corrective to our modern barbarism—which is only intimated at in Dialectic of Enlightenment . However, as Lohmann points out, if this is the case...
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (1 (100)): 141–163.
Published: 01 February 2007
...” (Theodor W. Adorno, “Free Time,” in The Culture Industry, ed. J. M. Bern-
stein, trans. Gordon Finlayson and Nicholas Walker [New York: Routledge Classics, 2001], 188).
2. Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Frag-
ments, ed. Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, trans. E...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 125–146.
Published: 01 August 2021
... a view of ourselves as ends rather than means. It may come as a surprise to suggest that Adorno owes any substantive debt to Kant’s moral philosophy, especially if one considers the rather sobering assessment of Kantian moralism in an early work such as Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944), where...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (2 (104)): 33–53.
Published: 01 August 2008
... temporality: what J. M. Bernstein, in
Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics, terms a “fugitive ethical experience”
that provisionally eludes the “instrumental thinking” and “administered soci-
ety” propagated by the dialectic of Enlightenment and consummated by Ausch-
witz. On Bernstein’s account...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (1 (136)): 103–126.
Published: 01 February 2019
...” show notable parallels with Benjamin’s “Theses on the Philosophy of History” and his notion of history as catastrophe, as outlined in the famous aphorism expounding on Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus . This, of course, is a central underlying theme of Dialectic of Enlightenment , jointly written...
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (1 (100)): 47–76.
Published: 01 February 2007
... opus of the Frankfurt School’s American exile: Dialectic of
Enlightenment. Rolf Wiggershaus’s treatment in his history of the Frankfurt
School is typical: the section dealing with Eclipse of Reason carries the title
“Horkheimer’s ‘Dialectic of Enlightenment7 Commentators who have dis-
missed...
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