Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only k — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only k — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only k — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only k — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only k — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
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Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only kind of thinking that is sufficiently hard to shatter myths is ultimately self-destructive.

— Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
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