"The culture industry" was a phrase that Adorno and Horkheimer used in their book "Dialectic of Enlightenment," which was written during the war and published in 1947.
(Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, in their book "Dialectic of Enlightenment," blame this idolatry of the man-God for Christian anti-Semitism. For them, the Incarnation brings the absolute closer to the finite, and makes the finite absolute; it turns spirit into fleshy magic).
The critic Astra Taylor, in "The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age," argues that Adorno and Max Horkheimer, in their 1944 book "Dialectic of Enlightenment," gave early warnings about corporations "drowning out democracy in pursuit of profit".
In their famous book Dialectic of Enlightenment Marcuse's colleagues Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno attempted to demonstrate the Enlightenment embodied a tension between its own project of liberation and its own new mechanisms of oppression and domination.
In their 1944 book Dialectic of Enlightenment, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno argue that basically all human society is based on a "mythic" fear of the natural forces which structure our environment.
But one of the premises of Anthony Gottlieb's new book, "The Dream of Enlightenment" (Liveright) — the second installment of his lucid, accessible history of Western philosophy — is that thought cannot be divided according to disciplines in this way.
I went back to books for enlightenment.
In his new book, "The Supreme Awakening: Experiences of Enlightenment Throughout Time--and How You Can Cultivate Them," Craig Pearson has compiled perhaps the most comprehensive collection to date of peak experiences and human "awakenings".
He is preparing to publish his first book, "Erdene Zuu: The Jewel of Enlightenment," a photographic record of his monastery's tumultuous 20th-century history that he was inspired to compile after chancing on a few old photos.
This allowed him to read many influential books of the Age of Enlightenment, and understand the social, economic, technical, educative, political, cultural, and religious changes that were being prompted by the new ideas.
Clegg also drew inspiration from the Bible's Book of Genesis, deriving the prize of enlightenment from The Tree of Knowledge within it, while having read about Solar winds she decided to use them as the basis of propulsion for space vessels.
