What is Enlightenment? The Dialectic of Enlightenment

Seminar paper from the year 1999 in the subject Philosophy - Philosophy of the 20th century, grade: Pass, University of Melbourne, course: Introduction to Critical Theory, language: English, abstract: While we live in a post-modern World - having the age of Enlightenment, the eighteenth century, far in our rear view mirror - the concept of Enlightenment is still a basic philosophical task. Its ori...