启蒙的自我反思与拯救

Self-Reflection and Rescue of Enlightenment

与哈贝马斯的悲观诊断不同,霍克海默与阿多诺没有失去对人类理性的希望,他们的启蒙反思与批判以"积极的启蒙概念"为目的,并且意欲将启蒙从盲目的统治中解脱出来。为此,他们对神话与启蒙之间的纠缠关系作了结构剖析,重申启蒙思想的批判成分,坚持其积极事业,即坚持"关于进步的毁灭性的一面的考虑"和自身的"扬弃特征",最终为了重建启蒙与真理的联系。具体工作就是在关于生产的合理化过程的探讨中,围绕着"神话就是启蒙,而启蒙却倒退成了神话"两个主题,展开了关于自然与控制自然之间关系的剖析。

Differ from Jurgen HabermasJ s pessimistic diagnosis, Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adomo never lose the hope for human’s reason. Their critique to enlightenment is intended to prepare a positive concept of enlightenment which liberates it from its entanglement in blind domination. Therefore, they dissect the tangly relation between myth and enlight-enment ,reiterate the criticalness of enlightenment, persist in its positive career, namely, consideration of the truculency of progress and personal feature of sublation, and finally they intend to rebuild the relation between enlightenment and truth. In the discussion of the rationalization of production process, the specific work is to dissect the relation between nature and mastery of nature by focusing on the two themes of “myth is enlightenment and enlightenment is back into myth”.