The Frankfurt School treated the Odyssey as the first anthropology of enlightened man

Evidence

We had decided that this work must be done because the Odyssee [sic] is the first document on the anthropology of man in the modern sense, that means, in the sense of a rational enlightened being. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1354

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies what ‘anthropology of man in the modern sense’ meant to Horkheimer and Adorno — the rational, enlightened human as the modern subject.
• XREF: This is core Dialectic of Enlightenment material — the Odysseus excursus as foundational to the critique of enlightenment instrumental reason. — connects to: Marx and Engels’ interest in prehistory shaped the Frankfurt School’s myth research — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1343; The Frankfurt School’s notion of Enlightenment expanded to cover all Western thought — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 778; Adorno and Horkheimer linked Odyssey sacrifice themes to anti-Semitism’s psychology — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1355 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno and Horkheimer linked Odyssey sacrifice themes to anti-Semitism’s psychology #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1355
• The Odyssey excursus chiefly shows enlightenment reverting to myth, not myth being enlightenment #qualifies (0.82) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1377
• The Frankfurt School’s notion of Enlightenment expanded to cover all Western thought #expands (0.72) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 778