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 New Failure of Nerve

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Byers
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
John Cage ◽  
Jackson Pollock ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
Mark Rothko

The first chapter asks how the postwar American avant-garde emerged, and under what conditions. It considers a constellation of works from 1945 to 1947 which figured the need to ‘begin again’ both aesthetically and philosophically. The first section suggests that the roots of this movement can be found in critiques of the Enlightenment tradition which emerged in the United States from 1943 and informed a new independent left politics focused on the radical individual. The following sections reveal how these critiques (which included the work of émigrés such as Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer) initiated an American neo-primitivism exemplified by Olson’s early oeuvre as well as those of Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and John Cage.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

scholarly journals Gordon Rohlehr and the Culture Industry in Trinidad

2011 ◽  
Vol 85 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 191-214
Author(s):  
Raymond Ramcharitar
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Trinidad And Tobago ◽  
West Indian ◽  
Culture Industry ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
Alternative Sexualities ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
Cyber Culture

The terms "culture" and "cultural studies" in Trinidad and Tobago have been narrowly defined to mean Carnival and various other phenomena connected to the nationalist project. There has been little acknowledgement of cyber culture, alternative sexualities, consumerism, media, and in general the "Culture Industry", as theorised by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer. One critic, Gordon Rohlehr, has over decades presented a body of work ostensibly focused on Carnival, but which also contains a cogent critique and outline of the Trinidad and Tobago Culture Industry (as contemplated by Adorno). A close reading of Rohlehr's work, and his intellectual antecedents, reveal a compelling critique of the Trinidadian/West Indian notion and practice of culture and cultural studies, and suggests areas for the discipline's expansion to better serve the needs of the region.

scholarly journals A formação para autonomia: contribuições da Teoria Crítica da Escola de Frankfurt

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Haryanna P. Sgrilli
Keyword(s):  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
Theodor Adorno

No Brasil, as leis e documentos oficiais que estabelecem os objetivos e especificidades da educação escolar parecem estar de acordo quanto a um certo caráter emancipatório que ela deva assumir. No caso específico do Ensino Médio, tanto a Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Brasileira quanto as Orientações Curriculares Nacionais (OCNs) falam do desenvolvimento da “autonomia intelectual” e do “pensamento crítico” do educando. Nas OCNs de Ciências Humanas, sobretudo com relação à Filosofia, advoga-se a ela imensa responsabilidade nesse sentido. Tendo isso em vista, a proposta desse trabalho é estabelecer uma discussão das concepções de “autonomia intelectual” e “pensamento crítico”, a partir do referencial dos teóricos-críticos Theodor Adorno e Max Horkheimer. Consideramos, pois, que o entendimento crítico dessas concepções tem muito a contribuir para uma elaboração mais consciente das propostas pedagógicas das escolas e planos de trabalho dos docentes.

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