![]() ![]() The hero’s peregrinations from Troy to Ithaca trace the path of the self through myths, a self that is infinitely weak compared to the force of nature and still in the process of formation as self-consciousness. #4 The Odyssey is closer in form to the picaresque novel. He fails to recognize that the primal powers he extols themselves represent a stage of enlightenment. #3 The most prominent and therefore the most impotent of the esoteric apologists of German heavy industry, Rudolf Borchardt, prematurely breaks off his analysis in the service of repressive ideology. However, they saw this element as both positive and negative, and tried to liquidate it. ![]() #2 The German late-Romantic interpretation of antiquity, based on the early writings of Nietzsche, recognized the element of bourgeois enlightenment in Homer. The epic creates a universality of language, but it also disintegrates the hierarchical order of society. It illustrates the dialectic of enlightenment, as it shows clear links to myth, but it also contradicts those myths. #1 The Odyssey is a prime example of the intertwinement of myth and rational labor. Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI Voice. In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account. In Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), Horkheimer and Adorno argued that the celebration of reason by thinkers of the 18th-century Enlightenment had led to the development of technologically sophisticated but oppressive and inhumane modes of governance, exemplified in the 20th century by fascism and totalitarianism. ![]()
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