Enlightenment criticism, carried to its end, reduces truth itself to animistic magic.

Evidence

Mythology itself set off the unending process of enlightenment in which ever and again, with the inevitability of necessity, every specific theoretic view succumbs to the destructive criticism that it is only a beliefuntil even the very notions of spirit, of truth and, indeed, enlightenment itself, have become animistic magic. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 351

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Nietzsche’s self-consuming will to truth and anticipates postfoundationalist critiques of reason.