Eclipse of Reason — When Efficiency Replaces Judgment
A society may become increasingly rational in its procedures while losing the ability to judge whether its purposes are reasonable.
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Eclipse of Reason by Max Horkheimer as an entry point, this investigation examines the historical transformation of reason from a faculty capable of evaluating human ends into an instrument primarily concerned with efficiency, calculation, adaptation, and self-preservation.
Horkheimer’s distinction between objective and subjective reason reveals a deeper institutional pattern…
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