Dialectic of Enlightenment

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Dialectic of Enlightenment, written by Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno made its first appearance in 1944 under the title Philosophische Fragmente by Social Studies Association, Inc., New York. A revised version was published in 1947 by Querido Verlag in Amsterdam with the title "Dialektik der Aufklärung." It was reissued in 1969 by S Fischer Verlag GmbH. There have been two English translations: the first by John Cumming (New York: Herder and Herder, 1972) and a more recent translation, based on the definitive text from Horkheimer's collected works, by Edmund Jephcott (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002).

The work contains:

"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" (in which they prefigure Marshall McLuhan's thesis on "the medium is the message"
"Elements of Anti-Semitism: Limits of Enlightenment"
"Notes and Drafts"

Dialectic of Enlightenment

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