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Dialectic of Enlightenment examines how projects of rational mastery can support domination. The selected argument does not require rejecting reason or all measurement.
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Guided course · Module 11 · Lesson 66
Can reason become a tool of domination?
Horkheimer and Adorno criticize a reason that asks only how efficiently an end is reached. The lesson questions an institution’s ends as well as its efficiency and tests its practice against its own promises.