Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a ...

Before I came to America to study, I had watched a pretty embarrassing share of teenage movies about teenagers in high school. One such movie was "Mean Girls." I remember thinking it was all hyperbole ...

In a chapter from his World War II-era book dubbed "Dialectic of Enlightenment" (1947),German Jewish philosopher Theodor Adorno hypothesized that capitalist media producers prioritize marketability ...

Wherever we look today in academia, scholars are rushing to defend the Enlightenment ideas of political and individual liberty, human rights, faith in scientific reason, secularism, and the freedom of ...

The question has sometimes been asked (and answered) in philosophy, whether the historical Enlightenment has been sustained. Adorno and Horkheimer, for instance – in Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) ...