Nowoczesność na ruinach Myken
Modernity on the Ruins of Mycenae

Summary/Abstract: The myth of Orestes, developed by Greek tragedians, may be the key to understanding the aporias of the modern world. Mycenae and its contemporary ruins may symbolize, respectively, the moment of the birth of modern subjectivity and the terrifying effects to which led the development of the civilization based on it. Following Adorno and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment, this essay attempts to ask about the Greek origins of subjectivity, which was fully revealed in the European Enlightenment and became the basis of modern consumerism, expansive technology and predatory exploitation of nature. The subject of consideration is also an alternative form of subjective individuality, outlined in the myth of Orestes and reaching us from the Mycenaean ruins of the modern world.

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