Weber and Klages supplied the two unacknowledged themes structuring Dialectic of Enlightenment.

Evidence

Against the background of a generalization of Hegel’s critique, in the Phenomenology of Spirit, of the unleashing of enlightenment, two oddly interwoven themes lay at the heart of the Dialectic of Enlightenment. The most significant representatives of these two themes, Max Weber, the sociologist of modern rationality, on the one hand, and Ludwig Klages, the philosophical critic of the modern domination of nature, on the other, were not mentioned in the book. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 350

Categorization

• XREF: Links directly to the chapter’s later treatment of Weber’s rationalization thesis and Klages’s nature critique.
• QUESTION: Why did Horkheimer and Adorno suppress naming their two chief intellectual sources?