Closereads: Horkheimer and Adorno on Enlightenment (Part One)

Sign up for Closereads at patreon.com/closereadsphilosophy to get previous and future installments of this podcast. On "The Concept of Enlightenment" (1944), the first essay in this Frankfurt School book of critical theory, The Dialectic of Enlightenment. Our authors lay out what they take The Enlightenment to consist of, including some quotes from Francis Bacon, and some ultimately fatal tensions within it that make it no longer serve the humanistic purposes it was created for. The post Closereads: Horkheimer and Adorno on Enlightenment (Part One) first appeared on The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast.