Negative Dialectics

Name: Negative Dialectics
Author: Theodor W. Adorno

by Theodor W. Adorno

Critique of identity-thinking and affirmative rationality in philosophy

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Theodor W. Adorno

German philosopher and critical theorist who, with Horkheimer, founded the Frankfurt School's critique of mass culture, Enlightenment reason, and fascism. Dialectic of Enlightenment argues that the Enlightenment contained the seeds of its own destruction. Negative Dialectics is his major philosophical work.

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