“…the Odyssey as a whole bears witness to the dialectic of enlightenment” (Horkheimer and Adorno, cited in Kluge and Negt, p. 268).

See Commentary 12: The Ancient Naval Hero as Metaphor of the Enlightenment: German Brooding Counter-Images; “Obstinacy” (pp. 268-95), especially “The Violent Learning Process of Commodity Exchange on the Mediterranean Sea” (pp. 273-74).