scholarly journals Revisitando uma obra exemplar: Dialectic of enlightenment: philosophical fragments de Theodor Adorno e Max Horkheimer

Mulemba ◽  
2014 ◽  
pp. 641-658
Author(s):  
Cesaltina Abreu
Keyword(s):  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
Dialectic Of Enlightenment

Bernays, Horkheimer, and Adorno

2020 ◽  
pp. 114-135
Author(s):  
William Sipling
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Content Creation ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
Dialectic Of Enlightenment

Social media and 21st century mass communication have changed the technological landscape of marketing and advertising, enabling instant content creation, content curation, and audience feedback. The thought of Edward Bernays can be useful in examining and interrogating today's media, especially through the lens of Frankfurt School social theorists Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno. Further, the works Crystalizing Public Opinion and Propaganda are critiqued through ideas found in Dialectic of Enlightenment to give business and PR professionals ethical concepts that may be applied to modern trends in communications.

Two Dialectics of Enlightenment

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (02) ◽  
pp. 54-73
Author(s):  
William Maker
Keyword(s):  
Family Resemblance ◽  
Crucial Aspect ◽  
Phenomenology Of Spirit ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
Dialectic Of Enlightenment

In 1807 Hegel published the Phenomenology of Spirit which calmly asserted that philosophy had, at long last, ceased to be merely the love of knowing and had finally consummated its lust for truth, giving birth to ‘strenge Wissenschaft’ in logic and the system (Hegel, 1807: 3). In 1944, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno circulated mimeographed copies of Dialectic of Enlightenment, ominously asserting that the same process of reason's self-clarification which Hegel described brings us, not, as he claimed, to truth and freedom, but to barbarism. Somehow critical reflection's efforts to liberate humanity from superstition, darkness, and oppression has lead instead to Auschwitz.A crucial aspect of Horkheimer and Adorno's critique of enlightenment is the notion that enlightenment and its seeming antithesis, myth, are inextricably linked. In the Phenomenology Hegel had already investigated the underlying link between the rationality of the Enlightenment period and faith, its ostensible arational other, in Chapter VI. In various places Horkheimer and Adorno acknowledge the influence of Hegel, and they make suggestive passing references to the Phenomenology. Obviously, their connecting of enlightenment and myth bears more than a family resemblance to Hegel's pairing of enlightenment and faith. Just as Hegel disclosed that enlightenment and faith have more in common than usually thought, Horkheimer and Adorno aim to show that there is an important aspect of enlightenment already in myth and further, that enlightenment has itself fallen back into the essential features of myth it purports to be have overcome.

Two Versions of Voltaire: W.H. Auden and the Dialectic of Enlightenment

PMLA ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 120 (2) ◽  
pp. 388-403
Author(s):  
Susannah Young-Ah Gottlieb
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
Free Thought ◽  
Dialectic Of Enlightenment

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, W. H. Auden and the authors of the Dialectic of Enlightenment, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, ask themselves, in independent reflections, why attempts to free thought from oppressive schemata result in more-insidious forms of oppression: as clerical establishments go into decline, modernity creates new forms of mythological consciousness. For all three authors, the emergence of fascism in the early part of the twentieth century is proof of this and gives urgency to their inquiries into enlightenment. For all three, Voltaire is a pivotal figure, for his struggle against the unity of apologetic discourse and ruthless power allows them to discern an element of enlightenment that survives the most rigorous critique of its oppressive tendencies. This essay examines Horkheimer and Adorno's fragment “For Voltaire” alongside Auden's poem “Voltaire at Ferney” and shows how the latter both anticipates and reveals the limits of the former.

A EDUCAÇÃO EM GEORGE HERBERT MEAD, JÜRGEN HABERMAS E A TEORIA HERMENÊUTICO-CRÍTICA: tendências, desafios e perspectivas para uma prática pedagógica emancipatória

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirlene Santos Mafra Medeiros ◽  
Rita Maria Radl-Phillipp ◽  
José Gilliard Santos da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Rio Grande ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
Theodor Adorno

O artigo em questão apresenta a construção coletiva de uma proposta pedagógica para a Escola Estadual Joaquim José de Medeiros, localizada na cidade de Cruzeta, no Estado do Rio Grande do Norte, e possui como base epistemológica a teoria social de George Herbert Mead, Jürgen Habermas e a teoria crítica da educação da Escola de Frankfurt, nas perspectivas de Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno (2003), Jürgen Habermas (2012); e, atualmente, de pesquisadores contemporâneos como Freire (2009), Radl-Philipp (1996, 1998, 2014), Bannell (2006), Pucci (2006), Santos (2007), Medeiros (2010-1016), Casagrande (2014) dentre outros autores que estudam Mead e as teorias críticas numa perspectiva emancipatória.

scholarly journals Enlightenment and Repression: A Comparison of Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment and Herbert Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elliott Buckland
Keyword(s):  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
New Form ◽  
Reality Principle ◽  
Dialectic Of Enlightenment

This paper offers a comparison of Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment and Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization. It is my contention that although the content of these two works differs, there is an underlying argument which is remarkably similar. Drawing mainly on the early chapters of Dialectic and the first half of Eros, I plan to demonstrate that each text explores, the intertwining and cyclical nature of progress and regression; the manner in which liberating tendencies emerge which challenge present conditions, but upon their ascension become a new form of repression; for Horkheimer and Adorno this is the development of subjectivity in the movement from myth to enlightenment, which becomes the new myth; for Marcuse, it is the instinctual repression, under the guise of ‘civilization’, required of individuals in the interest of self-preservation and propagation. Furthermore, in both cases neither enlightenment, nor the reality principle are ever fully victorious, hence this cycle is self-perpetuating.

Narratives of Decadence in Post-Kantian Philosophy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Huddleston
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Focus Of Attention ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
European Philosophy ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Kantian Philosophy ◽  
Point Of Reference

Decadence is a perennial theme in philosophy. But tracing the arc of decline becomes an especially prominent focus of attention in European philosophy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This article explains and contrasts several “narratives of decadence” in the post-Kantian tradition. The article first lays out briefly the basics of G. W. F. Hegel’s optimistic view of progress and history as a foil and point of reference, then turns to expounding several narratives of decadence from other canonical philosophical figures in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—specifically, from Friedrich Nietzsche, from Martin Heidegger, and from Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer. All of these thinkers see modern humanity as being, in some (often quite nuanced) sense, in a decadent state, but all have a rather different diagnosis of what that fallen state consists of, and of how (or whether) we might be able to extricate ourselves from it.

Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno (1944): Dialectic of the Enlightenment

2020 ◽  
pp. 326-337
Author(s):  
Joyce Appleby ◽  
Elizabeth Covington ◽  
David Hoyt ◽  
Michael Latham ◽  
Allison Sneider
Keyword(s):  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Theodor Adorno

The Psyche in Late Capitalism I

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Y. Fong
Keyword(s):  
Culture Industry ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
Drive Theory

Employs the drive theory developed in the first three chapters toward a reinterpretation of the culture industry thesis of Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer.

scholarly journals O Novo Objeto do Mundo - Marx, Adorno e a forma valor

DoisPontos ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Leo Maar
Keyword(s):  
Herbert Marcuse ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
Theodor Adorno

A relação entre Marx e a Teoria Crítica não se esgota numa mera influência ou leitura. Os representantes da primeira geração de “frankfurtianos” procuram refletir como Marx os problemas de seu tempo. Nas obras de Max Horkheimer e Herbert Marcuse, entre outros, e especialmente nas contribuições de crítica social e cultural de Theodor Adorno, ocorre uma atualização do pensamento de Marx, tendo em vista a sociedade de massas contemporânea no atual estágio do desenvolvimento capitalista. Ao proceder dessa forma, a Teoria Crítica enfatiza o pioneirismo de Marx, que descobre e apreende teoricamente, a nova objetividade social do capitalismo: a forma valor como novo objeto do mundo capitalista, objetividade “falsa” porém simultaneamente dotada de poder real efetivo. Este novo objeto do mundo, tendo em vista o seu caráter de inversão e deslocamento social, impõe a necessidade da dialética como sua apresentação e, ao mesmo tempo, sua crítica. 

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