Pre-Enlightenment figures act on impulse, not on reified character

Evidence

The giant’s behavior has not yet become objectified in the form of “character.” He answers the suppliant Odysseus not with a mere outburst of uncontrolled hatred, but only with a refusal of the law that has not yet quite encompassed him. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 69

Categorization

• XREF: Adorno’s point that the Cyclops predates ‘character’ as objectification resonates with the culture-industry claim that modern mass culture standardizes personality in the book’s earlier chapter. — connects to: Enlightenment thinking sought the indubitable and lost sight of the undeniable — Douglas A. Kysar, Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental…, 657
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Enlightenment thinking sought the indubitable and lost sight of the undeniable — Douglas A. Kysar, Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental…, 657