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According to Horkheimer and Adorno, how is the Enlightenment Dialectical?
In 1947 the Frankfurt School philosophers Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno published their seminal work "Dialektik der Aufklärung", first translated to English in 1972 as "Dialectic ...
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What is the "concrete universal" in Hegel and Adorno?
The core argument of this article is that Adorno adopts the
distinction between an abstract and a concrete universal from Hegel
and criticizes Hegel, on that basis, as abstract. The first two ...
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Can the meaning of "negative dialectics" be paraphrased?
At the very beginning of his book Negative Dialectics, Adorno writes
As early as Plato, dialectics meant to achieve something positive by
means of negation; the thought figure of a “negation of ...
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