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Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer's "The Dialectic of Enlightenment" (Part 1/2)

Theory & Philosophy

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The Cyclops, You Know, Is Nobody?

Odysseus, the one eyed creature, of course, to which he doesn't give his real name. He just says that he's nobody. And there is an impossible issue with translation where the name for nobody actually kind of sounds like odysseus. So this might be attributable to the cyclops just not properly understanding odysseu. But if we assume that Odysseus is trying to thwart the y s are trying to trick the cyclops, then we see this as being the demonstration of a cunning person essentially taking advantage of the feeble minded. Even when the act occurs, it is undone by framing it as being a negative event.

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