This concept is said to revert to mythology in a book which claims that society is manipulated into passivity by kitsch (kitsh) produced by the (*) "culture industry"; that book is by Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno.
One essay on this concept rejects the "blackmail" of being forced to be for or against it and warns against conflating this concept with humanism. "Guardians" supervising the majority of mankind oppose this concept in another essay about it that discusses three different men who command "Do not argue!". This concept is said to revert to mythology in a book which claims that society is manipulated into passivity by kitsch (kitsh) produced by the (*) "culture industry"; that book is by Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno. Its motto is given as sapere aude, or "Dare to know!", in an essay that defines it as emergence from "self-imposed immaturity". That essay was written by Immanuel Kant, one of its members. For 10 points, name this 18th-century European intellectual movement that emphasized reason and individualism.
One essay on this concept rejects the "blackmail" of being forced to be for or against it and warns against conflating this concept with humanism. "
Enlightenment [or Aufklärung; or siecle de Lumieres; prompt on "reason"]