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Dialectic of Enlightenment as Genealogy Critique

Jürgen Habermas has argued that, in condemning rationality while using rational argument, the authors of Dialectic of Enlightenment are guilty of a "performative contradiction."¹ Allegedly, Dialectic of Enlightenment represents a totalization of ideology critique. Reason turns back on itself, casting suspicion over the very rational criteria which had previously done the ideological unmasking. Habermas has also suggested that Horkheimer and Adorno make the critique of reification unworkable, by projecting it "back behind the capitalist beginnings of the modern age into the very beginnings of hominization."² Accordingly, Horkheimer and Adorno no longer see capitalist society as the ground of reification. It...