Adorno’s critique of Enlightenment began as early as the 1930s

Evidence

Here perhaps for the first time Adorno hinted at that more sweeping critique of the Enlightenment which he and Horkheimer together would carry out many years later. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 256

Categorization

• XREF: Points toward Dialectic of Enlightenment, the later joint work this early hint anticipates; connects the 1930 Dialectic of Enlightenment to its prehistory. — connects to: Nietzsche prefigured Adorno’s diagnosis of the dialectic of enlightenment. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 912; The critique of Enlightenment predates postmodernism by two centuries. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 60; Adorno’s basic philosophical positions were fixed before his American emigration — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 298

Broader Connections

• The critique of Enlightenment predates postmodernism by two centuries. #expands (0.75) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 60
• Nietzsche prefigured Adorno’s diagnosis of the dialectic of enlightenment. #corroborates (0.72) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 912