What Was Enlightenment?
In: Visions of the Enlightenment: The Edict on Religion of 1788 and the Politics of the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century Prussia Visions of the Enlightenment, S. 167-192
In: Visions of the Enlightenment: The Edict on Religion of 1788 and the Politics of the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century Prussia Visions of the Enlightenment, S. 167-192
Critically assesses Max Horkheimer's & Theodor Adorno's book, Dialectic of Enlightenment, which first appeared in 1947 but wasn't discovered until the time of the Vietnam War when it led to conflicts with radical students who felt Horkheimer & Adorno had betrayed their earlier commitments. The book takes a strong stand against the "barbarity" of Nazi Germany but attempts to explain the regime's physical atrocities in wider philosophical terms. Attention is given to Horkheimer's & Adorno's claim that enlightenment can be a form of myth; their criticism of abusive aspects of American capitalism; & their identification of dangers implicit in enlightenment, especially in relation to the "culture industry" & anti-Semitism. Other issues discussed include the book's underlying theme of alienation; the sacredness of the "here & now" which Horkheimer & Adorno consider the opposite of alienation; their analysis of the market economy; & resistance to the notion of "reflection." Although Dialectic of Enlightenment is said to be a powerful manifesto against modernist barbarity, the authors still saw merit & moral stability in state-monopolized ideological establishments. J. Lindroth
In: Occidentalism: Modernity and Subjectivity, S. 153-195
In: The Voice of Conscience : A Political Genealogy of Western Ethical Experience
In: Visions of the Enlightenment: The Edict on Religion of 1788 and the Politics of the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century Prussia Visions of the Enlightenment, S. 79-104
In: Visions of the Enlightenment: The Edict on Religion of 1788 and the Politics of the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century Prussia Visions of the Enlightenment, S. 141-166
In: Intending ScotlandExplorations in Scottish Culture since the Enlightenment, S. 77-144
In: Philosophy of Anthropology and Sociology, S. 711-733