The silence of the sirens: Rereading the dialectic of enlightenment with kafka and borges

Eduardo Mendieta

doi:10.5325/jspecphil.28.3.0401

The silence of the sirens: Rereading the dialectic of enlightenment with kafka and borges

Eduardo Mendieta

Philosophy

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	401-410
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of Speculative Philosophy
Volume	28
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5325/jspecphil.28.3.0401
State	Published - 2014

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