Dialectic of Enlightenment - 9781784786793

Description: Dialectic of EnlightenmentAuthor(s): Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, John Cumming Format: Paperback Publisher: Verso Books, United Kingdom Imprint: Verso Books ISBN-13: 9781784786793, 978-1784786793 Synopsis Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer are the leading figures of the Frankfurt School and this book is their magnum opus. Dialectic of Enlightenment is one of the most celebrated works of modern social philosophy that continues to impress in its wide-ranging ambition. Writing just after the Second World War and reflecting on the bureaucracy and myths of National Socialism and the inanity of the dawn of consumerism, Adorno and Horkheimer addressed themselves to a question which went to the very heart of the modern age: 'why mankind, instead of entering into a truly human condition, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism'. Modernity, far from redeeming the promises and hopes of the Enlightenment, had resulted in a stultification of mankind and administered society, characterised by simulation and candy-floss entertainment. Tracing humanity's modern fall to the very rationality that was to be its liberation, the authors exposed the domination and violence that underpin the Enlightenment project.

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Book Title: Dialectic of Enlightenment

Subject Area: Political Science

Item Height: 210 mm

Item Width: 140 mm

Author: Theodor Adorno

Publication Name: Dialectic of Enlightenment

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Publisher: Verso Books

Publication Year: 2016

Type: Textbook

Number of Pages: 288 Pages