October 4, 2007
Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno published Dialectic of Enlightenment, their exploration of the Enlightenment's self-destruction. Throughout the book, Horkheimer and Adorno explore the ways in which the Enlightenment tradition of critical thought turns back onto itself, changing from a social force that aims to emancipate humanity from oppression to one that undermines individual sovereignty and that contributes to the reign of economic and bureaucratic domination over humanity. The fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant." Dialectic of Enlightenment is replete with such savage bon-mots
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