The work of philosophy and social criticism known as the "Dialectic of Enlightenment" was written, in part, by Theodor W. Adorno, a philosopher, sociologist, and composer know for for his critical theory of what?
Dialectic of Enlightenment Dialectic of Enlightenment (German: "Dialektik der Aufklärung" ) is a work of philosophy and social criticism written by Frankfurt School philosophers Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno and first published in 1944. A revised version appeared in 1947.
Relations of production Relations of production (German: "Produktionsverhältnisse") is a concept frequently used by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in their theory of historical materialism and in "Das Kapital". It is first explicitly used in Marx's published book "The Poverty of Philosophy", although Marx and Engels had already defined the term in "The German Ideology".