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“… the hope of [Dialectic of Enlightenment] was already not to reverse enlightenment but to encourage enlightenment to become enlightened about itself. Once thought’s autonomy is turned into an absolute, it becomes delusory; yet, without some resistance to sheer heteronomy thought cannot even begin to reflect on what conditions it

Really good explanation of Marx’s commodity fetishism, and Lukác’s History and Class Consciousness, and how Adorno drew from the latter. Much is on the concepts of use and exchange values.

End of the chapter on the Dialectic of Enlightenment. A most useful chapter, providing the necessary context, background and explanation to better allow me to grasp the original work. Essential to read before embarking on the actual work.