Dialectic of enlightenment : philosophical fragments / Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno ; edited by Gunzelin Schmid Noerr ; translated by Edmund Jephcott

Author:: Horkheimer, Max, 1895-1973
Uniform Title:: Philosophische Fragmente. English
Published:: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2002.
Physical Description:: xix, 282 pages ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators:: Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969 and Schmid Noerr, Gunzelin

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Series:

Cultural memory in the present

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) / by Willem van Reijen and Jan Bransen.

Summary:

This celebrated work is the keystone of the thought of the Frankfurt School. It is a wide-ranging philosophical and psychological critique of the Western categories of reason and nature, from Homer to Nietzsche.

Subject(s):

Philosophy

ISBN:

0804736324 (alk. paper)
9780804736329 (alk. paper)
0804736332 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780804736336 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries); 2013

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