Dialectic of Enlightenment at seventy

Interview with Rodrigo Duarte

Abstract

The main objective of this interview with Professor Rodrigo Duarte is to share with the readers of the journal Opinião Filosófica an important date: the seventieth anniversary of Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment, written in California in 1944, but published in 1947 by Querido Verlag in Amsterdam. Although almost seven decades have passed since the publication, bringing the emergence of new types of social life, new formal features in cultural life and the consolidation of a new world economic order still remain highly topical. Duarte, an Adorno scholar from Brazil, shows that the concepts of the German philosopher are a valid source of knowledge in order to substantiate a critique of the contemporary culture