
Published online:
22 January 2015
Published in print:
12 September 2014
Online ISBN:
9780226155517
Print ISBN:
9780226155487
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1. Introduction 1. Introduction
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2. The Text of the Dialectic of Enlightenment 2. The Text of the Dialectic of Enlightenment
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3. Enlightenment As a Historical Category? 3. Enlightenment As a Historical Category?
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4. The Concept of Enlightenment, And Enlightenment and Myth 4. The Concept of Enlightenment, And Enlightenment and Myth
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5. Images and Signs 5. Images and Signs
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6. The Dissolution of Subjectivity 6. The Dissolution of Subjectivity
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7. The Dialectic of Enlightenment Andkant’s Dialectic of Reason 7. The Dialectic of Enlightenment Andkant’s Dialectic of Reason
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8. Adorno on Kant’s Dialectic 8. Adorno on Kant’s Dialectic
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9. The Necessity of the Dialectic of Enlightenment 9. The Necessity of the Dialectic of Enlightenment
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10. The Dialectic of Enlightenment and Practical Reason 10. The Dialectic of Enlightenment and Practical Reason
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11. Conclusion 11. Conclusion
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one I Against I: Stressing the Dialectic in the Dialectic of Enlightenment
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Shuster, Martin, 'I Against I: Stressing the Dialectic in the Dialectic of Enlightenment', Autonomy After Auschwitz: Adorno, German Idealism, and Modernity (Chicago, IL , 2014; online edn, Chicago Scholarship Online, 22 Jan. 2015), https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226155517.003.0002, accessed 18 Apr. 2025.
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Shuster, Martin. "I Against I: Stressing the Dialectic in the Dialectic of Enlightenment." In Autonomy After Auschwitz: Adorno, German Idealism, and Modernity University of Chicago Press, 2014. Chicago Scholarship Online, 2015. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226155517.003.0002.
Abstract
This chapter advances three big claims. First, that Kant is the central interlocutor in Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment, and that this has not yet been recognized in the scholarship. Second, that Horkheimer and Adorno launch a devastating critique of Kant’s notion of autonomy, showing how in adopting this notion, agents undermine their capacities for practical reasoning and thereby their very standing as agents. Third, it is shown that the dialectic of enlightenment is based on Kant’s notion of dialectic in the Critique of Pure Reason.
Keywords:
Immanuel Kant, autonomy, freedom, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, practical reason, dialectic, Critique of Pure Reason, agency
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Moral Philosophy
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