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An external critique of modernism recovers concepts of civilization and civic aesthetics which are trans-historical -simultaneously modern and classically inspired - and provides a counter both to romantic historicism and enlightened models of progress. An exploration of the internal critique of modernism treats romanticism (later historicism and post-modernism) as central to the development of European modernism alongside enlightenment, and, like the enlightenment, subject to its own dead-ends and fatalities. ^ Sadean Nature and Reasoned Morality in Adorno/Horkheimer’s ‘Dialectic of Enlightenment’, Psychology and Sexuality 1 (3), September 2010, 249-260.Dialectic of Romanticism presents a radical new assessment of the aesthetic and philosophical history and future of modernity.^ See Dialectic of Enlightenment, 7, 159, 162.The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences. ^ 'The Entwinement of Myth and Enlightenment,' p.Instead the conscious decision of the managing directors executes as results (which are more obligatory than the blindest price-mechanisms) the old law of value and hence the destiny of capitalism.' Dialectic of Enlightenment. ^ 'one are the objective laws of the market which ruled in the actions of the entrepreneurs and tended toward catastrophe.

'Is National Socialism a New Order?' Studies in Philosophy and Social Science 9 (1941), 453. 'The Disappearance of Class History in the Dialectic of Enlightenment.' in Dialectic of Enlightenment. Benjamin Gregg (Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, 1985). Also, see Helmut Dubiel, Theory and Politics: Studies in the Development of Critical Theory, trans. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1987. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures. It was supposed to explain mistaken Marxist prognoses, but without breaking Marxist intentions.' 'The Entwinement of Myth and Enlightenment: Horkheimer and Adorno.' in Habermas, Jürgen. ^ 'Critical Theory was initially developed in Horkheimer’s circle to think through political disappointments at the absence of revolution in the West, the development of Stalinism in Soviet Russia, and the victory of fascism in Germany.(1980).Introduction to Critical Theory: Horkheimer to Habermas.Berkeley, University of California Press. See also Dialectic Of Enlightenment Summary Notes There have been two English translations: the first by John Cumming (New York: Herder and Herder, 1972) and a more recent translation, based on the definitive text from Horkheimer's collected works, by Edmund Jephcott (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002). It was reissued in 1969 by S Fischer Verlag GmbH. A revised version was published in 1947 by Querido Verlag in Amsterdam with the title Dialektik der Aufklärung. The book made its first appearance in 1944 under the title Philosophische Fragmente by Social Studies Association, Inc., New York.

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Together with The Authoritarian Personality (1950 also co-authored by Adorno) and Frankfurt School member Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man (1964), it has had a major effect on 20th-century philosophy, sociology, culture, and politics, inspiring especially the New Left of the 1960s and 1970s. One of the core texts of critical theory, Dialectic of Enlightenment explores the socio-psychological status quo that had been responsible for what the Frankfurt School considered the failure of the Age of Enlightenment.