Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only kind of thinking that is sufficiently hard to shatter myths is ultimately self-destructive.
Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
dialectic, dialectical-materialism, enlightenment, frankfurt-school, modernism, modernity, myth, nazi-culture, nazism, post-ww-ii, self-destructive