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‘Myth is already enlightenment; and enlightenment reverts to mythology’ (Dialectic of Enlightenment XVI) Adorno and Horkheimer’s obscure and nihilistic text Dialectic of Enlightenment (DoE) is an attempt to answer the question ....

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... study reveals for Adorno and Horkheimer the failure of the Enlightenment project. Enlightenment has no claim to being less a myth than the mythology it failed to escape. This new myth is defined for them by the drive to dominate nature at the expense of alienation of man from nature and from his own inner nature. They follow the appearance of the subject as it is objectified alongside nature, and is dominated with it. The subject becomes an object and his intellect becomes instrumental, and all instinct and sensory experience that fails to be productive in the pursuit of domination is repressed, man becomes mechanized. They also assert ...