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The Project of the Frankfurt School

Are Horkheimer and Adorno Obsolete?

In 1969, Max Horkheimer agreed to the publication of a second edition of Dialectic of Enlightenment. The paperback version sold over 70,000 copies, making it the most widely purchased (if not the most widely read) work of the Frankfurt School.¹ Despite this success, for many critics the book has aged. Jürgen Habermas has suggested that it was too constrained by the desire to understand German fascism: "We no longer share this mood, this attitude."² Terry Eagleton has also diagnosed a possible "overreaction to fascism,"³ while Peter Hohendahl has concluded that Theodor W. Adorno's works can...