
Dialectic of Enlightenment
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Hegel's Dialectic Entanglement of Enlightenment and Power
I think the fatal word is a Hegelian word in a sense, is becomes verdant. And so Adorno will later write negative dialectics because he thinks you have to change what Hegel did in some way. So that's why they can say something like the dialectical entanglement of enlightenment and power,. Like that's another quotation from the book. Because the point for them is that each things are whole in themselves and then they get dialectically entangled when they go out into their other. That's how they see a dialectical process going.
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