Instrumentalization drives reason toward self-destruction in Horkheimer’s theory

Evidence

The elaboration of the motif connected with the philosophy of history was carried out under the rubric of a theory of the self-destruction of reason through instrumentalization. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 335

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names the philosophy-of-history programme that becomes the central thesis of Dialectic of Enlightenment and Eclipse of Reason.