Homer’s poems show enlightenment and myth intertwined
Evidence
But there is no work which offers more eloquent testimony of the mutual implication of enlightenment and myth than that of Homer, the basic text of European civilization. In Homer, epic and myth, form and content, do not so much emerge from and contrast with, as expound and elucidate, one another. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 57
Categorization
- DEFINE: States the core dialectic: enlightenment’s self-definition depends on the myth it claims to supersede.
- XREF: connects to: Said’s own critique essentialized the West by tracing Orientalism back to Homer — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 872
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Said’s own critique essentialized the West by tracing Orientalism back to Homer — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 872
Broader Connections
- Said’s own critique essentialized the West by tracing Orientalism back to Homer
#complicates(0.72) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 872