A Study On Dialectic Of Enlightenment's Critique Of Modernity

Dialectic of Enlightenment is an important text of Hawk hammer and Adorno.In Hawk hammer 's and Adorno's understanding,enlightenment is the thought about human progress,it will get rid of the fear of nature,human establish independent and eventually become the master of nature and society as the target.Enlightenment therefore becomes the pronoun of modernity,the philosophical connotation of modernity is embedded in enlightenment.To reveal the truth of the enlightenment,in the dialectic of enlightenment modernity criticism,criticism of the enlightenment logic is a kind of critique of modernity,this is the total logic critique of modernity.Hawk hammer and Adorno's keenest rational spirit in the human mind,which is the core of the spirit of enlightenment,in their view,enlightenment spirit aims to follow the principle of identity established on the basis of the rule of nature.And enlightenment dialectic refers to the enlightenment to the opposite of his,after rational enlightenment in the metamorphosis of tools also inevitably lead to its self to destroy,but also caused the crisis of modernity."Dialectics of enlightenment" is focusing on enlightenment and instrumental rationality of the modernity criticism,although hawk hammer and Adorno's critique of modernity in modern research into trouble,future generations will provide a series of reconstruction theory,the critique of modernity in the "dialectics of enlightenment" is still has reference significance and enlightenment for China's modernization construction.In this paper,we summarize and comb the critique of modernity in the Dialectic of Enlightenment,which is divided into five parts.The first part summarizes the significance of the modern critical research of the Dialectic of Enlightenment and the present situation of the research on the text of the Dialectic of Enlightenment at home and abroad;The second part of the basic situation of Dialectic of Enlightenment made a comprehensive introduction,respectively from the era of its author,writing background and ideological source to understand the text,Dialectic of Enlightenment is the representative figure of Frankfurt school hawk hammer and Adorno in the second world war broke out,under the time background of the rise of fascism,Marx's theory of "alienation",Lukacs "materialization" theory,Weber's theory of "rational" effect,on the basis of rational social crisis on enlightenment and jointly write critical text;Third part as the focus of the full text,this paper analyzes the criticism of modernity in the Dialectic of Enlightenment,first of all,from the concept of modernity and discuss hawk hammer and Adorno's critique of modernity,and then focus on criticism of the enlightenment and instrumental rationality,the Dialectic of Enlightenment thought enlightenment rationality in reduced to tool rationality,in the pursuit of conquest of nature and power gradually towards its opposite.Finally,the dimension of the crisis of modernity and gender crisis in modernity is analyzed.The fourth part is the criticism of "dialectics of enlightenment modernity into trouble,and to the reconstruction of the enlightenment," Dialectic of Enlightenment in the understanding of the enlightenment rational perfect,have in criticism of postmodernism;The fifth part expounds the Dialectic of Enlightenment's modernity criticism of Chinese modernity construction,for enlightenment,and should be adopted according to the national and era background of specific dialectical attitude towards it,China's task of enlightenment has not been completed,the information age for rational desire to let us enlightenment can not be rejected,how to deepen in to avoid the negative influence of rational enlightenment is in the process of modernization in our country need to think about problems.