A Reading of "Against Knowingness" from Adorno & Horkheimer's 'Dialectic of Enlightenment'
Acid Horizon
The Stupidity of Cleverness in the Face of Fascism
This chapter explores the failures of 'cleverness' in understanding power dynamics during the Hitler era. It critiques the reliance on rational discourse to combat fascism, highlighting how it can overlook the brutal realities of oppression and the contradictions of bourgeois reason.
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