The Folly of Reason and Gravity of Reconciled Humor in Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment

The aim of this paper is to show how, taken at face value, it appears that Horkheimer and Adorno’s conception of the culture industry presented in The Dialectic of Enlightenment does not allow for integral freedom--or the very freedom which is at the heart of modernity’s conception of the person and...

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Main Authors: Sheryl Tuttle Ross, Aaron Golec
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nederlands Genootschap voor Esthetica (Dutch Association of Aesthetics) 2016-12-01
Series:Aesthetic Investigations
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Online Access:https://www.aestheticinvestigations.eu/index.php/journal/article/view/74