Excursus I: Odysseus or Myth and Enlightenment

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"Excursus I: Odysseus or Myth and Enlightenment" is a key philosophical essay by Adorno and Horkheimer that interprets the figure of Odysseus as embodying the ambivalent relationship between myth and rationality in modern enlightenment thought.

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instanceOf chapter ⓘ
philosophical essay ⓘ
analyzesEpisode Odysseus and Polyphemus ⓘ
Odysseus and the Sirens ⓘ
argumentSummary Enlightenment rationality emerges from myth but also reproduces mythic domination in a new form ⓘ
Odysseus exemplifies the split between commanding subject and subjugated body ⓘ
The cunning of Odysseus anticipates the calculative, instrumental reason of modern society ⓘ
author Max Horkheimer ⓘ
Theodor W. Adorno ⓘ
centralConcept identity of myth and enlightenment ⓘ
renunciation ⓘ
sacrifice ⓘ
self-preservation ⓘ
conceptualPair freedom and domination ⓘ
myth and rationality ⓘ
subject and object ⓘ
critiques bourgeois rationality ⓘ
instrumentalization of reason ⓘ
discipline literary criticism ⓘ
philosophy ⓘ
social theory ⓘ
hasInfluenceOn contemporary literary theory ⓘ
critical theory of culture ⓘ
philosophy of the enlightenment ⓘ
influencedBy German idealism ⓘ
Marxism ⓘ
psychoanalysis ⓘ
interpretsCharacterAs figure of self-preservation through cunning ⓘ
prototype of the modern bourgeois individual ⓘ
interpretsWork Homer's Odyssey ⓘ
language German ⓘ
mainCharacter Odysseus ⓘ
originalPublicationContext exile of the authors in the United States during World War II ⓘ
partOf Dialectic of Enlightenment ⓘ
philosophicalSchool Frankfurt School ⓘ
philosophicalTradition Critical Theory ⓘ
linked to: Critical theory
publicationYear 1944 ⓘ
relatedConcept enlightenment reverts to mythology ⓘ
myth as already enlightenment ⓘ
settingOfAnalysis ancient Greek epic ⓘ
theme ambivalence of enlightenment ⓘ
bourgeois subjectivity ⓘ
domination of nature ⓘ
enlightenment ⓘ
instrumental reason ⓘ
myth ⓘ
rationality ⓘ

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Dialectic of Enlightenment → hasPart → Excursus I: Odysseus or Myth and Enlightenment ⓘ
Excursus I: Odysseus or Myth and Enlightenment → argumentSummary → Odysseus exemplifies the split between commanding subject and subjugated body ⓘ
linked to: Excursus I: Odysseus or Myth and Enlightenment