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Enlightenment (Kant) promised rationalism:
1. Vs myths
2. Individual autonomy
3. control over nature
4. Increasingly just society
Frankfurt Schools analysis of Enlightenment:
"...instead of these ideals of enlightenment bringing liberation, these social forms have become
...new forms of enslavement
..turned into the opposite of what they promised
...original ideas had become a new kind of myth
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— Jul 15, 2026 01:56AM
1. Vs myths
2. Individual autonomy
3. control over nature
4. Increasingly just society
Frankfurt Schools analysis of Enlightenment:
"...instead of these ideals of enlightenment bringing liberation, these social forms have become
...new forms of enslavement
..turned into the opposite of what they promised
...original ideas had become a new kind of myth
"
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Bloch:
"...while the left had neglected what Bloch wanted to call ‘revolutionary fantasy’. The left had seen fascist ideology as a mere form of deception, instead of decoding it as a form of wish-fulfilment."
"He believed that it was the fascists, and not the left, who had given political form to modern utopian substance...In doing so, fascism or Nazism had depoliticised this substance."
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— Jul 13, 2026 10:23PM
"...while the left had neglected what Bloch wanted to call ‘revolutionary fantasy’. The left had seen fascist ideology as a mere form of deception, instead of decoding it as a form of wish-fulfilment."
"He believed that it was the fascists, and not the left, who had given political form to modern utopian substance...In doing so, fascism or Nazism had depoliticised this substance."
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"Horkheimer and Adorno – are implying that it is capitalist rationality itself which produces and reproduces forms of barbarism; that fascism cannot be seen as a breakdown unique to Germany due to the asymmetry in Germany’s social institutions, but is itself inherent in the logic of late capitalism."
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"Lukács concluded that the proletariat had an opportunity of escaping from this logic of domination, whereas Horkheimer and Adorno concluded that they had no such possibility... socialism will be irresponsible if it develops facile philosophies of history which imply that social-democratic parties only have to sit back and the working class will be victorious."