The Tragedy of Enlightenment

This book conveys an overall sense of the continuities and discontinuities in the concerns of the Frankfurt School's core members over two generations.

Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Horkheimer's critical theory; 3. The critique of ideology; 4. The dialectic of enlightenment; 5. Technological rationality; 6. Language and politics; 7. Critique of critical theory; 8. Conclusion; Notes; Index.