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The Silence of the Sirens: Rereading the Dialectic of Enlightenment with Kafka and Borges
- The Journal of Speculative Philosophy
- Penn State University Press
- Volume 28, Number 3, 2014
- pp. 401-410
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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.