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PEL Presents Closereads: Horkheimer and Adorno on The Odyssey (Part One)

1 h 0 min · 5. juni 2026
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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). Subscribe to Closereads (and get a link to this text to read along) at patreon.com/closereadsphilosophy [https://www.patreon.com/c/closereadsphilosophy]; follow us there via the free tier to part two and many other episodes like this one ad free, or pay us to get parts 2-5 and everything else we've recorded. (Alternatively, support both PEL and Closereads at patreon.com/partiallyexaminedlife [https://www.patreon.com/partiallyexaminedlife] for a nice combo deal.)

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