Many recent commentators have noticed how Adorno, in his late works, borrows Kant's
definition of enlightenment to define key areas of his own critical practice. These …

Kant is a pivotal thinker in Adorno's intellectual world. Although he wrote monographs on
Hegel, Husserl, and Kierkegaard, the closest Adorno came to an extended discussion of …

Kant is a pivotal thinker in Adorno's intellectual world. Although he wrote monographs on
Hegel, Husserl, and Kierkegaard, the closest Adorno came to an extended discussion of …

Kant's manuscript “Answering the Question:'What is EnlightenH ment?'”, from the year 1784,
emerged in the context of a debate on the concept of enlightenment that had been put …

Theodor W. Adorno often made reference to Immanuel Kant's famous essay on
enlightenment. Although he denied that immaturity is self-incurred, the first section of this …

The aim of this essay is to analyse the potential for political emancipation that lies within
Kant's conception of Aufklärung, in critical dialogue with enlightenment critics and …

What is enlightenment? In the late eighteenth century, scholars and civil servants alike were
grappling explicitly with this question. For them, it was not simply a question about defining …

In December 1784 an article appeared in the Berlinische Monatsschrift that would go on to
become what Dan Edelstein has aptly characterized as a “one-stop shop for defining the …

In the course of a close analysis of Kant's essay in which he gives his original answer to the
question,“What is Enlightenment?” I examine the causes and consequences of the theses …

Theodor Adorno wrote at the crossroads of modernity and post-modernity, during a time
when our heretofore unmitigated love of enlightenment became tinged with an element of …