A good view on the involvement of myth in the Enlightenment and the Enlightenment's unconscious project to simply replace the form of myth with thinking disguised as scientific, I'd recommend Horkheimer and Adorno's The Dialectic of Enlightenment[0].
[0] The book was re-published as late as 1965. Here's a summary before you read: https://frankfurtschool.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/summary-dia...