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Published by Akal · Philosophy and religion · ISBN 9788446016779

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A philosophical essay and critique of society, written jointly by Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno of the Frankfurt School: it circulated in 1944 as Philosophical Fragments and appeared in revised form in 1947. It argues that Enlightenment reason, turned into a tool for mastering nature, ended up mastering people too, and from there reads fascism, antisemitism and mass culture, for which they invented the phrase culture industry.

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For readers of philosophy and the social sciences ready for a demanding text, which the sources say requires some knowledge of Kant's idea of Enlightenment. It is one of the central texts of critical theory.
Why people still read it
It circulated clandestinely in the 1950s and 1960s until it became a reference work, and it strongly influenced twentieth-century philosophy, sociology and politics, above all the New Left of the sixties and seventies.

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