The Problem of Art in the Social Philosophy of the Frankfurt School

Abstract

The fundamentals of the Frankfurt school's conception of art were expounded in Horkheimer and Adorno's book, Dialectic of Enlightenment,1 where the "critical theory of society" appeared in the form of a specific (anti-Hegelian) philosophy of history—the history of bourgeois enlightenment, whose sources the authors trace to ancient Greek mythology.