Abstract
This paper investigates the reception of the Kantian concept of Aufklarung by Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer in their work Dialectic of Enlightenment. The objective of this inquiry is the concept of enlightenment and the discussion that it develops is limited to how the Kantian concept of enlightenment was incorporated by Adorno and Horkheimer, its meaning and range and its continuities and discontinuities in relation of what was theorized by Immanuel Kant. We got to the conclusion that, despite the resemblances with the way the concept was used by the authors, Adorno and Horkheimer used the concept of enlightenment to oppose to how its historic development.
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