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The Death of Enlightenment
Date published: 2023-08-16
Date modified: 2023-08-16
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“Men who don't think are like sleepwalkers.”
Hannah Arendt
In 1947, the German philosophers Adorno and Horkheimer wrote The Dialectic of Enlightenment. In the book, one can clearly see the mixture of disbelief and deep shame in the face of what Nazi Germany meant.
The proposal of both is to investigate the self-destruction of the Enlightenment. And one of the parameters is the guarantee of freedom as inseparable from enlightened thought.
In a brilliant analysis -bordering on catharsis- the philosophers consider that even within this concept if we consider the concreteness of historical forms and the interrelations between the institutions of society, it is concluded that the germ of regression is constantly present.
And Adorno's and Horkheimer's regression is the same one we are witnessing today, in the passive-aggressiveness of social media; in the post-truth era, in the superficialization of knowledge and the total disengagement -tomorrow- with the position vehemently defended today.
Now, the authors argue, if the clarification of a question does not bring in itself the consideration, the reflection on this regressive element, it writes a sad end to the story.
If we leave the consideration of the destructive element of progress to the other side, it is our thinking that narrows, that loses its transcendent character and, consequently, its relationship with the truth.
When a country has a government program that generates false carbon credits, the paralysis comes from fear of the truth.
It is then that the dialectic of enlightenment must overcome the barriers of its philosophical position; historical-cultural and create foundations in reality. Otherwise, the technologically educated masses will be dominated by the fascination of despotism, which will degenerate into misunderstood absurdities manifested in the exercise of violence and the weakness of the power of understanding.
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