Adorno and the Dialectic of the Enlightenment - a podcast by Daniel Dal Monte

In this episode, I discuss how Adorno views the Enlightenment as sliding inevitably towards totalitarianism. The Enlightenment seeks to reduce reality to numerical rationality. It suffers no exemption to this reductive trend. Eventually it emerges in a totalitarian political system that brings every aspect of human life under its control.

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