Weber’s disenchantment names rationalization’s double meaning of liberation and curse.

Evidence

The first of these two themes was the view of Western civilization as a process of rationalization, the ambivalence of which Weber had aptly described with the concept of disenchantmentdisenchantment referring both to the breaking of a magical spell and to the escape from a curse. The second theme was the attribution of the state of the world at each stage of its development to a correspondingly harmonious or hostile relation between humanity and nature. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 350

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gives the exact twofold sense of ‘disenchantment’ as spell-breaking and curse-escape.
• XREF: Resonates with Weber’s rationalization thesis and the Frankfurt School’s humanity-nature theme.