Dialectic of the Enlightenment. Philosophical Fragments

Abstract

This celebrated work is the keystone of the thought of the Frankfurt School. It is a wide-ranging philosophical and psychological critique of the Western categories of reason and nature, from Homer to Nietzsche. Preface to the new edition (1969) -- Preface to the Italian edition (1962/1966) -- Preface (1944 and 1947) -- 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 -- Notes and sketches -- Editor's afterword -- The disappearance of class history in "Dialectic of enlightenment": a commentary on the textual variants (1944 and 1947) / by Willem van Reijen and Jan Bransen.