Thank you so much for this. What treasure! I’m working on an article right now about how Critical Theory is a direct descendent of Enlightenment thought, and especially French Enlightenment thought, so you can imagine how fortunate it felt to have this come across my feed.
It’s pretty satisfying too: there’s a consilience here. I didn’t know that Horkheimer said anything like this himself. I had drawn the connection because of Peter Gay’s “The Enlightenment: An Interpretation,” which takes pains to establish that the philosophes considered criticism the essence of the Enlightenment project, and thought that the end goal of that project was human emancipation. Which, I don’t know — just smacked me over the head as Critical Theory
This is an excellent article, . And it seems important for our era. Where man have no respect for social norms, and where ignorance seems like a badge of honor.
I plan on going back over the article. It seems more like a book, that can be studied for years.
Thank you so much for this. What treasure! I’m working on an article right now about how Critical Theory is a direct descendent of Enlightenment thought, and especially French Enlightenment thought, so you can imagine how fortunate it felt to have this come across my feed.
It’s pretty satisfying too: there’s a consilience here. I didn’t know that Horkheimer said anything like this himself. I had drawn the connection because of Peter Gay’s “The Enlightenment: An Interpretation,” which takes pains to establish that the philosophes considered criticism the essence of the Enlightenment project, and thought that the end goal of that project was human emancipation. Which, I don’t know — just smacked me over the head as Critical Theory
This is an excellent article, . And it seems important for our era. Where man have no respect for social norms, and where ignorance seems like a badge of honor.
I plan on going back over the article. It seems more like a book, that can be studied for years.