Closereads: Horkheimer & Adorno on The Odyssey (Part One)

from The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · host Mark Linsenmayer

Sign up for Closereads at patreon.com/closereadsphilosophy to get previous and future installments of this podcast. We read part of The Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944), specifically the parts about Homer's epic as an allegory for the merely apparent triumph of modernism (capitalism, instrumental reason) over myth (savagery, magical thinking). The post Closereads: Horkheimer & Adorno on The Odyssey (Part One) first appeared on The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast.

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