Critique of Instrumental Reason §

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Relations §

• Immanent Critique: Immanent critique has been used to critique the dominance of instrumental reason and the reduction of human beings to mere means or instruments.
• Critique of Enlightenment Rationality: Thinkers like Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno critique the Enlightenment’s emphasis on instrumental reason, which reduces everything to means-ends calculations and leads to the domination of nature and individuals.