question archive The post-modernists criticized 'Enlightenment' philosophers: their optimism, faith in progress and science, reliance on abstract rationality, and lack of historical self-awareness did little to prevent atrocity
The post-modernists criticized 'Enlightenment' philosophers: their optimism, faith in progress and science, reliance on abstract rationality, and lack of historical self-awareness did little to prevent atrocity
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The post-modernists criticized 'Enlightenment' philosophers: their optimism, faith in progress and science, reliance on abstract rationality, and lack of historical self-awareness did little to prevent atrocity. It was science and 'bureaucratic' rationality that made it possible to build weapons of mass destruction and organize genocide, they claim: "The Fully Enlightened Earth Radiates Disaster Triumphant," Adorno wrote. Are they right? Has the 'long peace' since WWII shown the post-modern critique wrong? Or are we headed towards worst disasters yet, such as climate change, which 'modern' scientific rationality cannot solve?
