Lotus and Pharmakon: Drugs in the Dialectic of Enlightenment

This essay explicates the position of Adorno and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment on the problem of drugs. At the focus of my analysis are the passages in “Excursus I: Odysseus or Myth and Enlightenment” which interpret the Homeric myth of the Lotus-eaters in terms of the modern phenomenon of...

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Published in:	Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 159 - 184
Main Author:	Shmugliakov, Pioter
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	University of Warsaw 01.01.2025
Subjects:	critical theory dialectic of enlightenment drugs horkheimer and adorno jacques derrida
ISSN:	2544-302X, 2544-302X
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