Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer's analysis of how Enlightenment reason, aimed at human liberation, reverses into a new form of domination and myth.
The dialectic of enlightenment: the Enlightenment's drive to demystify and master nature ultimately produces totalitarianism, the culture industry, and administered society — reason becomes irrational when totalized.
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