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A 2010 book in this language argues that we have moved beyond a disciplinary society to an achievement society, whose oppressive positivity spreads the title malaise. This language was used to write Psychopolitics and The Burnout Society by Korean theorist Byung-Chul Han. A book in this language describes Reason as a “chemical agent” that seeks to control nature and reads Marquis de Sade’s Juliette. A book in this language argues that art’s radical character has undergone (*) “repressive desublimation,” flattening a previously “two-dimensional” existence. The “culture industry” is theorized as a means (10[1])of social control (-5[1])in a book written in this language, The Dialectic (-5[1])of Enlightenment by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer. (10[1])For 10 points, name this language used by critical theorists of the Frankfurt School. ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: German [or Deutsch]
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