The review examines Horkheimer and Adorno's "Dialectic of Enlightenment," a critical analysis of European civilization. Based on Hegel's dialectical method, the work demonstrates how enlightenment contains the principle of its own negation. The authors see in Odysseus a proto-bourgeois who cunningly fights against myth. The book also analyzes Kant's and Sade's philosophy, the manipulative nature of the culture industry, and anti-Semitism as the tragic culmination of enlightenment's dialectic. The work shows how rational thinking transformed into an instrument of domination and how the subject was destroyed in its own process of development.