Lecture Eight The Frankfurt School and the critique of Enlightenment One, About the book Dialectic of Enlightenment ---- Philosophical fragments 1. the historical background for the writing of the book Near the end of the National socialist Terror The tendency toward the administered society Written during the years from 1939-1944 First publicly published in the year of 1947 in Holland Republished in the 60s of the last century 2. d irect theoretical resources for the book Studies in State Capitalism Psycho-analysis 3, It represents a new stage of the development of critical theory A, The former understand ing of critical theory(Horkheimer: Traditional and Critical Theory, 1937) The unity of theory and praxis Social philosophy(the inter-disciplinary studies in social reality, the integration of philosophy and empirical stud ies B, the New changes(Horkheimer and Adomo: Dialectic of Enlightenment, 1944) The connections with the trad itional theory have been broken The connections with political actions have been broken The criticism of enlightenment: theoretically more rad ical, practically more conservative 4. It is the result of their former researches Stud ies in authorities Analysis of Nazism Critique of Mass Culture Two, About the Critique of Enlightenment 1, the necessity of the criticism of enlightenment A, the original problem concerned with in the book to explain why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking a new kind of barbarism fascism on the international level the tendency toward the administered society after the wars, the renewed growth of totalitarianism in the third world the terror of wars B, the new problem dealt with in the book The self-destruction of enlightenmentLecture Eight The Frankfurt School and the critique of Enlightenment One, About the book Dialectic of Enlightenment ---- Philosophical Fragments 1, the historical background for the writing of the book: Near the end of the National Socialist Terror The tendency toward the administered society Written during the years from 1939-1944 First publicly published in the year of 1947 in Holland Republished in the 60s of the last century 2, direct theoretical resources for the book Studies in State Capitalism Psycho-analysis 3, It represents a new stage of the development of critical theory A, The former understanding of critical theory (Horkheimer: Traditional and Critical Theory, 1937): The unity of theory and praxis Social philosophy (the inter-disciplinary studies in social reality, the integration of philosophy and empirical studies) B, the New changes (Horkheimer and Adorno: Dialectic of Enlightenment, 1944) The connections with the traditional theory have been broken The connections with political actions have been broken The criticism of enlightenment: theoretically more radical, practically more conservative 4, It is the result of their former researches: Studies in Authorities Analysis of Nazism Critique of Mass Culture Two, About the Critique of Enlightenment 1, the necessity of the criticism of enlightenment A, the original problem concerned with in the book: “to explain why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking a new kind of barbarism” fascism on the international level the tendency toward the administered society after the wars, the renewed growth of totalitarianism in the third world the terror of wars B, the new problem dealt with in the book: The self-destruction of enlightenment