The Silence of the Sirens: Rereading the Dialectic of Enlightenment with Kafka and Borges

Journal of Speculative Philosophy 28 (3):401-410 (2014)
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ABSTRACT The article rereads Horkheimer and Adorno's classic Dialectic of Enlightenment from the standpoint of animal philosophy while also offering a comparison and contrast between Odysseus and Socrates as personifications of the “animal question” that haunts all Western philosophy. The key thesis is that this question is a metaphilosophical question and that we thus have to develop a critical philosophy that is at its core also an animal philosophy.

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10.5325/jspecphil.28.3.0401

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Eduardo Mendieta
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