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Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments

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Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments, ed. Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, trans. Edmund Jephcott (Stanford University Press, 2002), preface to 1944/1947, pp. xiv–xix

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1 Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments, edited by Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, translated by Edmund Jephcott, Stanford University Press, 2002. Title/copyright, PDF pp. 6–7; 1969 preface, pp. xi–xii/PDF pp. 12–13; 1944/1947 preface, pp. xiv–xix/PDF pp. 15–20; “The Concept of Enlightenment,” pp. 1–4/PDF pp. 22–25; culture-industry chapter, pp. 94–97/PDF pp. 115–118; “Elements of Anti-Semitism,” pp. 138–140/PDF pp. 159–161; editor's afterword, pp. 217–221/PDF pp. 238–242, a scholarly account used for limited typescript circulation. The archive copy has marginal annotations and damaged OCR on some chapter pages. Claims were read with context; no uncertain transcribed wording is quoted. The 2002 translation is the edition described here, not John Cumming's earlier English translation.