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Adorno And Horkhiemers Dialect
Part 1 of Paper ....nlightenment XVI)
Adorno and Horkheimer’s obscure and nihilistic text Dialectic of Enlightenment (DoE) is an attempt to answer the question ‘why mankind, instead of entering a truly human condition, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism’ (DoE, p.xi). The result is a totalising critique of modernity;.... Part 2 of Paper ....ject becomes an object and his intellect becomes instrumental, and all instinct and sensory experience that fails to be productive in the pursuit of domination is repressed, man becomes mechanized. They also assert that class domination is a direct and inevitable consequence of the attempt to dominate nature, and is therefore inescapable.
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Adorno and Horkheimer, members of the Frankfurt school in Germany, wrote DoE (which was completed in 1944) while Fascism, a kind of ba.... |
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