Horkheimer And Adorno's Analysis
The motivation behind this paper will be to explore Horkheimer and Adorno's evaluation of the enlightenment and Habermas' retort. Horkheimer and Adorno both prominent philosophers of the Frankfurt School of Marxist Critical Theory agree that “myth is already enlightenment, and enlightenment reverts to mythology”. Implying that the liner progression of the enlightenment has really uprooted its original aims. The notion is that by making man the sovereign of nature has really delivered inverse effects on social nature, which emerge in fascism and Stalinism. Habermas then challenges the focus of the enlightenment critiques of the time and the Norms that we have created that digress from the progression of the movement.