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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Dialectic of Enlightenment"”.
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Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Subjekt : der Stellenwert des Ästhetischen im Kontext der Geschichtsphilosophie der kritischen Theorie
… and T. W. Adorno’s jointly composed essay “Dialectic of Enlightenment” and, on the other hand, from Adorno’s fragmentary essay “Aesthetic Theory”, which was published posthumously.In order to implement such a comparison, critical theory’s philosophy of history was firstly examined, such as …
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Adorno and the Language of the Intellectual in Exile
… as an exile influenced his two works <em>Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments </em>(1944)<em> </em>and <em>Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life </em>(1951). These works embody the adversity Adorno wrestled with in his personal life and voice a quasi-indignant …
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EFFECTIVE HISTORY: ON THE GENEALOGY OF MODERN RATIONALITY
… critical discourse: the nature and meaning of the historicity of rationality. It elaborates this issue in dialogue with the critical theory of Adorno and Horkheimer and the poststructuralist genealogy of Michel Foucault. For the Adomo and Horkheimer of the Dialectic of Enlightenment, the …
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Freedom, Music and the RIAA: How the Recording Industry Association of America Shapes Culture by De-politicizing Music
Since the development of widespread sound recording and distribution, the music industry has become increasingly consolidated among fewer companies. Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno described how the commodifying forces of the music industry lead to a predictable formulaic music that lacks any …
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The idea of mimesis: Semblance, play, and critique in the works of Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno
<p>Critical Theory demands that its forms of critique express resistance to the socially necessary illusions of a given historical period. Yet theorists have seldom discussed just how much it is the case that, for Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno, the concepts and language it employs, as well …
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The Frankfurt School : the crisis of subjectivity and the problem of social change
The crisis of subjectivity and the problem of social change is the underground history of the European Revolution of 1917-23. Its final signal in the inter-war years came with the defeat of the Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War in the years preceding the Second World War. The defeats of …
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Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, . . . and C. S. Lewis? Two Revolutionary Philosophical, Moral, and Cultural Critiques
… dissertation is a critical comparative analysis of two twentieth-century works of profound philosophical, moral, and cultural criticism: C. S. Lewis’ The Abolition of Man (1944) and Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944). Written during, and greatly influenced …
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The aesthetics of radical critique : Kant or the dialectic and revolution
… attempts to account for the paralysis of Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment, and thus of radical critique in relation to practice in general. It begins by demonstrating that there is a methodological problem in the connection of the dialectical method to Adorno and …