To be clearer, they suggest that enlightenment translate life into non-living mechanisms by numbers, chemical components, and physical laws. Here is the ultimate demythologisation and disenchantment. There are not any more spirits or gods, but numbers, particles; it removes all life from magic so that they can become completely calculable, knowable. Here is the thing; Myth: Act of looking at things, seeing living forces in them. Enlight! : De-myth! Because they are symmetrically opposed to each other and there is reversibility between the two, Adorno and Horkheimer suggest a common core between them. Actually enlightenment is not liberation from myth and fear. It is rather a form of taking relation between myth and unknown to an extreme degree. Myth deals with fear and problems of unknown through gods. Enlightenment takes this explanation to extreme in the way which nothing that cannot be measured is left in general. Myth is already enlightenment, and enlightenment reverse to myth. Enlightenment is already included in mythology. In other words, enlightenment tries to free myth but it becomes mythology.
Posted on: Sat, 10 May 2014 06:54:47 +0000