TY - JOUR N2 - The article, drawing on the tradition of Frankfurt School, brings to the focus a great paradox of the Enlightenment – a hidden affinity of rationality and mythology. Noticing the phenomenon of great enthusiasm, underlying the message of the Enlightenment, it tries to pin down the starting point of a new scientistic eschatology – bringing to life a mirage of unending prosperity and unlimited profusion, following the advances of science. The idea of accumulation of knowledge is approached as a pivot of a new mythology. At the same time, putting light on the notion of “cognition industry”, the article offers critical insights tracing an inevitable erosion of high-minded dreams and expectations. Cognition industry is studied as a machinery turning up-side down the hopes of the Enlightenment – protecting the interests of instrumental rationality, and replacing the ideal of getting at the truth with the mechanism putting in motion the “production” of truth, operating in a domain of narrowly calibrated utility. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/122332/PDF-MASTER/N%23122-01-Filipowicz.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/122332 PY - 2022 IS - No 1 EP - 36 DO - 10.24425/nauka.2022.140319 KW - enlightenment KW - rationality KW - cognition KW - mythology KW - science A1 - Filipowicz, Stanisław PB - Biuro Upowszechniania i Promocji Nauki PAN DA - 2022.01.31 T1 - The rise of cognition industry and the impoverishment of scientific reason SP - 7 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/122332 T2 - Nauka ER -