Dialectic of Enlightenment is a central text of the Frankfurt School and the concept of Critical Theory.[1] The book is cloaked as a work of philosophy, and was very inspirational for the New Left activists of the 1960s and 1970s.[2]

Dialectic of Enlightenment was written in 1944 by Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer as Dialektik der Aufklärung, and was translated into English in the 1970s.[3]

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  1. ↑ The Frankfurt school, part 3: Dialectic of Enlightenment
  2. ↑ Introduction to Critical Theory: Horkheimer to Habermas
  3. ↑ Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory: Text and Readings