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“Myth is already enlightenment, and enlightenment reverts to mythology.”

Reason Enlightenment Mythology Regression

Book:Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments

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“Enlightenment, understood in the widest sense as the advance of thought, has always aimed at liberating human beings from fear and installing them as masters. Yet the wholly enlightened earth is radiant with triumphant calamity.”

Reason Enlightenment Myth

Book:Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments

Source: Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments

“Reason, by shedding its rationalistic illusions in the hell it made for the world as domination, may nevertheless withstand that hell and recognize it for what it is.”

Reason Domination

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