Critical thought, which does not call a halt before progress itself, requires us to take up the cause of the remnants of freedom, of tendencies toward real humanity, even though they seem powerless in face of the great historical trend. The conflicts in the third world and the renewed growth of totalitarianism are not mere historical interludes any more than, according to the Dialectic, fascism was at that time. In a period of political division into immense blocs driven by an objective tendency to collide, horror has been prolonged. All the same, even at that time we did not underestimate the implications of the transition to the administered world. In not a few places, however, the formulation is no longer adequate to the reality of today. The book was written at a time when the end of the National Socialist terror was in sight. That would be incompatible with a theory which attributes a temporal core to truth instead of contrasting truth as something invariable to the movement of history. We do not stand by everything we said in the book in its original form. We dictated long stretches together the Dialectic derives its vital energy from the tension between the two intellectual temperaments which came together in writing it. No one who was not involved in the writing could easily understand to what extent we both feel responsible for every sentence. We have been induced to reissue it after more than twenty years not only by requests from many sides but by the notion that not a few of the ideas in it are timely now and have largely determined our later theoretical writings. The book, which found readers only gradually, has been out of print for some time. The Disappearance of Class History in “Dialectic of Enlightenment”: A Commentary on the Textual Variants (19), by Willem van Reijen and Jan Bransenĭialectic of Enlightenment was published in 1947 by Querido in Amsterdam. The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass DeceptionĮlements of Anti-Semitism: Limits of Enlightenment Preface to the Italian Edition (1962/1966)Įxcursus I: Odysseus or Myth and EnlightenmentĮxcursus II: Juliette or Enlightenment and Morality
b3279.h8473 p513 2002 193-dc21 2002000073 Printed in the United States of America Original Printing 2002 Last figure below indicates year of this printing: 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 Typeset at Stanford University Press in 11/13.5 Adobe Garamond (Cultural memory in the present) Includes bibliographical references. Adorno edited by Gunzelin Schmid Noerr translated by Edmund Jephcott.
English translation ©2002 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University Horkheimer, Max, 1895–1973 Dialectic of enlightenment : philosophical fragments / Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Numbered notes are those created by Horkheimer and Adorno themselves. They are keyed in the reference matter section via the number of the page on which the asterisk appears and the preceding word. They include variant readings and other textual concerns. Asterisks in the text and display material mark editorial notes created for the German edition. , ĭialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments is translated from Volume 5 of Max Horkheimer, Gesammelte Schriften: Dialektik der Aufklärung und Schriften 1940–1950, edited by Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, ©1987 by S. ultural Memory in the resent Mieke Bal and Hent de Vries, EditorsĭIALECTIC OF ENLIGHTENMENT Philosophical FragmentsĮdited by Gunzelin Schmid Noerr Translated by Edmund Jephcott
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