Eclipse of Reason reversed the earlier dismissal of myth as domination

Evidence

This sort of evaluation of broad philosophical systems which were certain of the objective existence of meaning, both in the world and in human life, had not appeared in the Dialectic of Enlightenment. Only a few flickers of genuine enlightenment, hovering above a history trapped in immanence, had appeared there as positive aspects: the Jewish religion, the ideals of the liberal bourgeoisie, the loyalty of critical theorists towards determinate negation. In the Dialectic of Enlightenment, truth had been a criterion introduced surreptitiously to assess intellectual objectifications, and had never been discussed in more detail. In Eclipse of Reason, it was now traced back to what had still, for the Dialectic of Enlightenment, embodied domination by nature: myth. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 370

Categorization

• XREF: Directly tracks the conceptual shift from the Dialectic of Enlightenment to Eclipse of Reason, the book’s two central texts.
• DEEPTHINKING: Traces how truth, only surreptitiously present in the earlier work, gets re-grounded in myth — a dense reversal worth returning to.