Closereads: Horkheimer & Adorno on The Odyssey (Part One) (opens in new tab)

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). Homer is odd for H&A because even stylistically, the epics present a Continue Reading … The post first appeared on .