‘Yvonne Sherratt’s interpretation of Adorno’s positive dialectic is provocative, lucid and original. By reconstructing hidden Freudian dimensions, she rescues Adorno’s critique of enlightenment from ...

to the conceptions initially propounded by Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno in their Dialectic of Enlightenment. In this work, the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century is held accountable for ...

The book argues for another, previously unacknowledged source of Adorno's thinking on instrumental reason, dialectic of enlightenment, and frailty of democracy: the intellectual underpinnings of ...