Myths and Enlightenment are continuous, sharing the same drive to explain and dominate.

Evidence

Yet the myths which fell victim to the Enlightenment were its own products. In the scientific calculation of occurrence, the computation is annulled which thought had once transferred from occurrence into myths. Myth intended report, naming, the narration of the Beginning; but also presentation, confirmation, explanation: a tendency that grew stronger with the recording and collection of myths. Narrative became didactic at an early stage. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 36

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the chapter’s central thesis: Enlightenment is not myth’s opposite but its continuation.
• XREF: Connects to Burns’s later invocation of Adorno’s culture-industry critique; also to the Eliade/Mircea idea of myth repeating origins. — connects to: Enlightenment does not eliminate myth but re-enters it as secularized domination — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 46

Broader Connections

• Enlightenment does not eliminate myth but re-enters it as secularized domination #corroborates (0.95) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 46