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Dialectic of Enlightenment

A classic of twentieth-century thought, charting how society devours itself through the very rationality that was meant to set it free 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 and continues to impress in its wide-ranging ambition. Writing just after World War II 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

eBook, English, 2016
Verso, 2016