Dialectic of Enlightenment
Synopsis
In 1947, philosophers Horkheimer (1895-1973) and Adorno (1903-69) joined forces to explain why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism. They attribute the relapse into mythology not so much to the nationalist, pagan, or other modern mythologies concocted specifically to cause such a relapse, but to a fear of truth that petrifies enlightenment itself. Edmund Jephcott translates the German text from volume five of Horkheimer's collected works. There is no index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
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- 2002 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
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- ISBN-13:
- 9780804736336
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 2010-03-30T07:29:45Z
- Idioma:
- English
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- This is a copyrighted book.