What is he even trying to argue? Enlightenment=Myth? Is it worth it to read through the whole book?
Everything is a Myth if you believe hard enough.
>>1307126
It's literally about how the three ideologies of the Enlightenment(nazism, stalinsim and liberal capitalism) are totalitarian in character and their essence is scientific rationality which is Totality.
>>1307732
I remember encountering that concept in geography, people complained that Western approaches to geography were totalitarian.
>>1307126
>>1308194
> killing people is bad lmao
So is this just pure ideology?
>>1307126
He's saying Hegel's dialectics are correct. History works by dialectics BUT...
(wait for it)
History is not guaranteed to become more rational, as Hegel said. Dialectics can themselves bring about more irrationality (although it's subtle/hidden). This is what he calls "Negative Dialectics." To blindly accept the Enlighten project/the notion of progress has in itself irrationality.
We may think we're getting more rational, but we're probably just ignoring that we're destroying everything (irrational).
