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... degenerating into fascism—a few years before Dialectic of Enlightenment would be written. We face still today the promise and the peril of what Horkheimer and Adorno understood as the simultaneity of progress and decline. “Every advance,” indeed, “is also a regression.” Few have diagnosed the social...

...Dan Diner In this article Diner briefly rethinks the impact of enlightenment as a historical current of thought and of modernity as its material equivalent. The text unfolds its argument against the backdrop of growing intellectual skepticism toward Western culture and its achievements, especially...

...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...

...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...

...William Rasch Recent polemical and philosophical claims about modern, secular, liberal, enlightened Europe are examined from the perspective of Europe's relation, past and present, to the non-European world. The notion that Enlightenment reason and liberal institutions represent a higher level...

...Jana Cattien Abstract This article interrogates the discursive regimes that underpin Leitkultur (guiding culture) discourse in contemporary Germany and argues that Leitkultur conjures Germany’s imagined “freedom from history” from within Enlightenment temporalities of liberal freedom. This requires...

... by closely examining his 1980 Adorno Prize address, “Die Moderne—ein unvollendetes Projekt,” a work that both makes clear Habermas's continued faith in the Enlightenment project and offers one of his few direct remarks on aesthetic modernity. This article presents the shortcomings of Habermas's thinking...

... 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...

... 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...

... environment in a decrepit Jewish town in eastern Europe but left it behind to travel to Berlin and dedicate his life to philosophy in the tradition of the German enlightenment. Scholem (1897–1982), born a century and a half later to a middle-class acculturated Jewish family in Berlin, left it behind...

...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...

...Adi Armon During the Weimar years Leo Strauss was intellectually and spiritually close to streams of thought that were averse to liberalism, enlightenment, and democracy. Specifically, he was mostly influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Carl Schmitt. The political philosophy...

... 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...

... when it comes to confronting social pathologies wrought by late capitalism’s demand for infinite flexibility. Since its Enlightenment origins, however, critical thought has tended to attack natural limits as illegitimate barriers to human self-determination, even before this strategy became...

..., this article argues that the proponents of this view fail to recognize that the desire to overcome anthropocentrism was central to Enlightenment thought. Like the latter, ecological posthumanism accords itself cognitive privileges that presuppose a successful distantiation of the world. According...

... with “activate, exercise, allow to unfold,” because the most important thing about the obstinacy of these obstinate powers is that they rely on self-organization. But the concept of COURAGE is always central. Kant developed Enlightenment itself, as the “emergence from one’s self-imposed minority,” out...

... 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 movement. And the man was no more than a sign among the constellations. —Louis Aragon, Paris Peasant...

... toward enlightenment’s goal of abolishing fear. It mitigates terror by imitating and propitiating local spirits. Because Max Horkheimer and Adorno rely on a limited reading of Marcel Mauss,4 they are interested only in sympathetic magic, where “like produces like, contact results in contagion...

...?—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...

... . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press . Horkheimer Max . 2004 . “Schopenhauer and Society (1955).” Qui Parle 15 , no. 3 : 85 – 96 . Horkheimer Max Adorno Theodor W. . 2002 . Dialectic of Enlightenment , edited by Noerr Gunzelin Schmid , translated by Jephcott...