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Review of Adorno and Horkheimer's The dialectic of enlightenment
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Book Review: Adorno and Horkheimer's 'Dialectic of Enlightenment' Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer from the 'Frankfurt School' of thought, with their 'collective of understanding reality', were both educated German Jews. Who took an examining look at the 'Enlightenment'. Written in 1947 at the In their book, they synthesis both Freud and Marx, accepting both theories as being feasable. They accept the Marxist approach whereby economics is the sole aspect of society, the class struggle, commodity and the exchange of goods. However they recognise that this is merely one side and that there is the spiritual being which in itself needs catering for. The needs and desires of the individuals that are repressed by the society and constraints in which we live in. The Psychic development of the individual from birth, as it grows and learns how to conform to society. Freud and Marx both agreed however that...
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