Acknowledgements. This article is based upon a thoroughly revised lecture I gave at a University of Warwick conference on ‘The Dialectic of Enlightenment Revisited’ (1–2 November 2016). That conference was limited to an examination of this particular work and not to an overall assessment of the Frankfurt School, Critical Theory and its legacy. Enlightenment, in which the Holocaust and monopoly capitalism are the two most recent stages, themselves dialectically intertwined. calls for an enlightenment about the Enlightenment and thus a real step beyond the modem. However, there is a partial answer to be found in what Hegel and Horkheimer-Adorno hold in common about the limits of enlightenment that will take us a step closer to the full truth of enlightenment. Dialectic of Enlightenment Reconsidered Jeffrey Herf I met Anson Rabinbach in 1967, and we have been good friends ever since. Full text of 'Dialectic of Enlightenment - Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer.pdf (PDFy mirror)' See other formats. We have agreed about many things during this long friendship, but we have had our disagreements as well, some of them occasioned by a difference of opinion about the Frankfurt School's canonical text, Dialectic of Enlighten ment. This lecture critically interrogates Adorno and Horkheimer's 1944 much-admired "Dialectic of Enlightenment," addressing its contextual and ideological origins, its philosophical biases and theoretical assumptions, and the nature of its emphases and omissions as the work sought to grasp the barbarism of the time. Vortragsreihe Globaler Antisemitismus: Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Steven E. Aschheim (Hebrew University): The Holocaust and the Dialectic of Enlightenment Revisited "Dialectic of Enlightenment" thus represents one of the most pessimistic strands of Marxist thought, giving up all expectations of a people's revolution in Western Europe. The Dialectic of Enlightenment Adorno and Horkheimer first outlined in 1941 their ideas on ‘Elements of antisemitism: limits of enlightenment’. Adorno and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenmentand the consequences that follow for critical theory’s engagement with the phenomena of anti-semitism and the holocaust. Dialectic and Enlightenment 47 to state fully what enlightenment is, which I am not yet prepared to do.