A secret utopia within reason explains phases resisting demythologization

Evidence

There existed for them a secret utopia in the concept of reason'. Those phases of history which did not fit into the idea of an irresistible process of demythologization could then be explained by saying that, in such cases, the anti-authoritarian tendency of enlightenment being acted out within manifest history was still in communication with the utopia in the concept of reason’, `though of course only in a subterranean form’. Adorno and Horkheimer saw manifest forms of genuine, i.e. self-possessed, enlightenment in Jewish religion, in liberalism and in themselves. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1389

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Kant’s reason holds utopia and calculation in unresolved contradiction; Reading symbolism to the second power reveals the mythical surrender of autonomy — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 149

Broader Connections

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