Archive of Dialectic of Enlightenment

Must-read Verso classics for all students.

Books on authoritarianism, fascism and the far-right from across 50 years of publishing.

Phil Jones on the commonplace use of new age references among QAnon supporters, and the historic connections between mysticism and fascism

How to design an Adorno book? An interview with designer Neil Donnelly on his inspiration for the cover of The Authoritarian Personality.

"Using the term ‘cultural Marxism’, and the failure to dutifully apprehend its meaning, may allude to a wider Brexit culture war within which anti-Semitic tropes can be subsumed." Patrick Garratt looks into the origins of the anti-semitic trope, and the relevance of Marcuse’s social theory in the new era of ‘culture wars’.

There are three kinds of idiots: those who can count, and those who can’t. The ones who can count are obsessed with debunking received ideas and finding the hidden truth behind it. They measure things, calculate, and through the rigorous use of their own idiosyncratic reasoning they know why the earth is flat. Then there’s idiots who want to diverge from received ideas but are more playful, willful, intentionally absurd. Byung-Chul Han reminds us of this kind of idiocy which Deleuze thought characteristic of the philosopher. Is Han this kind of special idiot? Maybe.

A collection of aphorisms on music written by Theodor Adorno between 1927 and 1951.
 

Stuart Jeffries on the Frankfurt School's absence of women and the points of contact between the thinkers associated with the Institute für Sozialforschung and theorists of feminism.    

To mark the publication of Stuart Jeffries' Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School we're publishing excerpts and pieces related to Frankfurt School thinkers. Grand Hotel Abyss is now out in paperback and 30% off.