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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 printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set out to do," the authors write in the... read more
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In the most general sense of progressive thought, the Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty.
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Introduction
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
Elements of Anti-Semitism: Limits of Enlightenment
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This is book 9 of 100 in The hundred most influential books since the war. (community list)
Preceded by The Fear of Freedom (Routledge Classics S.), and followed by The perennial scope of philosophy.
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- Dewey: 193
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