A review by virtualmima
Dialectic of Enlightenment by Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno

3.25

The best chapters in this are "The Culture Industry", which compares Hollywood filmmaking and the entertainment industry to propaganda in Nazi Germany, and "Elements of Anti-Semitism". Both remain relevant today because things haven't really changed. The rest of the book was messy and poorly thought, however, and it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of people gave up after the first chapters of free association rambling on Homer and Marquis de Sade. Unfortunately the pseudo-logic in the initial chapters leads a lot of people to misinterpret the rest of the work.