![]() ![]() ![]() Their answer, in part, was that thought had been allowed to become a mere commodity, something to be exchanged, rather than something that influences life. ![]() Written during World War II, Dialektik der Aufklärung (1944), translated as The Dialectic of Enlightenment (1972), is primarily concerned to understand how a country like Germany, so rich in its intellectual tradition, could have succumbed to the atavistic appeal of Nazism. ADORNO 100 Paperback 3 offers from 13.69 Dialectic of Enlightenment (Cultural Memory in the Present) Max Horkheimer 187 Paperback 26.39 Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life Theodor Adorno 147 Paperback 16.79 Negative Dialectics (Negative Dialectics Ppr) Theodor W. Adorno and Horkheimer accept that the Enlightenment did bring about the Age of Reason, but argue that reason is a double-edge sword, or in their words a dialectic, because as humankind exercises its reason and transforms its environment according to its own needs it also allows an ‘instrumental’ way of thinking to dominate every aspect of thought with the paradoxical result that rational ways of thinking give rise to irrational acts. Dialectic of Enlightenment MAX HORKHEIMER' 'THEODOR W. Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer's modification of Immanuel Kant's thesis that Enlightenment means the end of the intellectual immaturity of humans and the advent of the Age of Reason. ![]()
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