By contrast, the critical theorists Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer turn against the Enlightenment claiming that rather than bringing nature under or control we have become more alienated from it: ‘Myth turns into enlightenment, and nature into mere objectivity. Men pay for the increase in their power with alienation form that over which they exercise their power (Adorno and Horkheimer 1986 : 9). The anti-authoritarian impulse of the Enlightenment turns into its opposite, another form of domination. This chapter examines the process they call the ‘dialectic of Enlightenment’,