SOURCE: Becker-Cantarino, Barbara. “Patriarchy and German Enlightenment Discourse: From Goethe's Wilhelm Meister to Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment.” In Impure Reason: Dialectic of Enlightenment in Germany, edited by W. Daniel Wilson and Robert C. Holub, pp. 48-64. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993.
In the following essay, Becker-Cantarino examines the role of patriarchal thought in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister novels and Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment.
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