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The Dialectic of Utility: Reconsidering Enlightenment in Hegel and Horkheimer/Adorno [PDF]

open access: hybridHegel Bulletin
In the Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel places the concept of utility at the centre of his analysis of the Enlightenment period. Utility does not appear merely as a criterion of individual action, but describes a social context of mutual support ...
Jonas Heller
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Social Media and the Dialectic of Enlightenment

open access: diamondtripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2012
My reflections in this paper concern revitalizing the critical potential of certain core concepts of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment (first published 1944) and bringing it to bear on the digital era in general and in ...
Henrik Juel
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Criticizing Nominalism & “Negative Metaphysics”. Philosophy-historical considerations on the concept of “Nature” in Dialectic of Enlightenment

open access: diamond, 2019
The article depicts the concepts “dialectic of nominalism” and “negative metaphysics” in the critical theory of the Frankfurt School. It points out how important these are not only in terms of history of philosophy. Karl Heinz Haag and Gunther Mensching,
Gerhard Schweppenhäuser
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Adorno and Critique of the Idea of Progress [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت و فلسفه, 2022
Philosophical proponents of the idea of progress believe that the human condition has improved throughout history and to this day, and will continue to do so in the future. Adorno writes in his writings that man has not progressed to date, but there is a
Ali Soltanzadeh   +1 more
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Kant’s philosophy as the development of the intentions of enlightenment [PDF]

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2023
Ernst Cassirer in his The Philosophy of the Enlightenment writes of Kant’s overcoming of the Enlightenment yet giving its deepest justification. This justification came in the form of epistemology which transformed the modern worldview, handing its form ...
Kalinnikov Leonard A.
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Between duty and contingency. On some figures of the humanistic tradition in Kant [PDF]

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2023
One must distinguish between the Enlightenment concept and the humanistic concept of humanity. The former indicates a universal deontological ideal; the latter a selective set of personal and social virtues.
Russo Marco
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Ekologiczna wymowa dialektyki oświecenia

open access: yesStudia Ecologiae et Bioethicae, 2010
The title of this paper relates directly to the celebrated work of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno: Dialektik der Aufklärung. Philosophische Fragmente. It shows as dialectical because of the ideas associated with engaging the rational mastery of the
Zbigniew Łepko
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Negative dialectic and linguistic turn: The actuality of Adorno’s concept of the conflict nature of modern societies [PDF]

open access: yesFilozofija i Društvo, 2010
The author attempts at questioning Habermas’ and Honneth’s claim that the linguistic turn within Critical Theory of society represents a way out of the “dead end” of the first generation of Frankfurt School theorists, who were unable to formulate an ...
Ivković Marjan
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