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Lotus and Pharmakon: Drugs in the Dialectic of Enlightenment [PDF]

Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
This essay explicates the position of Adorno and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment on the problem of drugs. At the focus of my analysis are the passages in “Excursus I: Odysseus or Myth and Enlightenment” which interpret the Homeric myth of the ...
Pioter Shmugliakov
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The Folly of Reason and Gravity of Reconciled Humor in Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment [PDF]

Aesthetic Investigations, 2016
The aim of this paper is to show how, taken at face value, it appears that Horkheimer and Adorno’s conception of the culture industry presented in The Dialectic of Enlightenment does not allow for integral freedom--or the very freedom which is at the ...
Sheryl Tuttle Ross, Aaron Golec
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Dialectic of Enlightenment, 2011

, 2011
Horkheimer, Max, and Theodor W. Adorno. <i> Dialectic of Enlightenment </i> . Edited by Gunzelin Schmid Noerr. Translated by Edmund Jephcott. 1st ed. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002 (first print: 1944). (p. 30) <i> Featured image by ChrisM70 under a CC-BY-NC-ND license.
Eve, Martin Paul
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Dialectical Critique and Secularism: Hegel and the Dialectic of Enlightenment [PDF]

, 2011
The secularization thesis, which posits that religion's influence declines as a society modernizes, has fallen upon hard times. Its critics argue that the religious does not simply oppose the secular. Critical theory has a particularly vexed relationship
Sambrooke, Jerilyn Kristel
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Outwitting Enlightenment with Words: Philosophical Style, Critique, and History in Adorno and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment [PDF]

, 2023
To many of its most authoritative commentators, Adorno and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment cannot but entail a reductively negative, pessimistic philosophy of history that ties the historical progress of enlightenment rationality with regression ...
Andreev, Plamen Detelinov
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Esquematismo e semiformação Schematism and semi-erudition

Educação & Sociedade, 2003
Este artigo tem como objetivo mostrar a relação entre a concepção, de Adorno, da "Teoria da semiformação" e sua sugestão (juntamente com Horkheimer), na Dialética do esclarecimento, de que a indústria cultural usurpa dos indivíduos a capacidade de ...
Rodrigo Duarte
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Žižek’s “Frankenstein”: Modernity, Anti-Enlightenment Critique and Debates on the Left

Enrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofia, 2022
In this article, I examine Slavoj Žižek’s Freudian-Hegelian interpretation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus (1818), and argue that Žižek’s critique of Shelley’s ambiguous and contradictory attitude toward the French Revolution ...
Jamil Khader
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The historical-hermeneutical prelude to the legacy of Karl Barth

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2007
The article aims to explain Karl Barth’s hermeneutical legacy against the background of the influence of the Enlightenment in philosophy and theology during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
G.M.M. Pelser, Andries G. van Aarde
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Habermas' critique of the Dialectic of Enlightenment [PDF]

, 2015
Mini Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2015.In the Dialectic of Enlightenment, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer argue that the Enlightenment is fated to always return to the state of myth which it claims to have escaped from.

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Evoluzionismo e gestaltismo. La psicologia della forma e il problema della genesi

Aisthesis, 2013
This article carries out a critique of the abstract and disembodied character owned by the structures of the Psychology of Form. The Psychology of Form ignores and removes the genesis of forms, thus remaining trapped in the "dialectic of enlightenment ...
Michele Gardini
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