Dialectic of Enlightenment (Paperback) - Philosophical Fragments
Horkheimer, Max / Stanford Univ Pr / 2007년 3월
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들이는 시간, 공에 비해 (이것들도 작진 않겠지만) 주는 보상이 매우 큰 책. 고전이라 꼽히는 책들 중에서도, 그 기준에서 독보적일 책. 20세기의 (가장 어두운 책일리가) 가장 강력한 책. 읽기 전의 자신을 생각하면 몸을 떨게 만드는 책. 읽을 시간을 준 인생에 감사하게 만드는 책.

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It is possible, then, to beleive that there is a significant narrative embedded in reality, even though it has no superhuman source. The novelist George Eliot, for example, was not a religious believer; but a novel like Middlemarch, like many a realist work of literature, assumes that there is a meaningful design inherent in history itself. The task of the classical realist writer is less to invent a fable than to flesh out the hidden logic of a story which is immanent in reality. Contrast this, then, with a modernist author like Joyce, for whom a pattern has to be projected into the universe rather than excavated from it. Joyce's novel Ulysses is intricately organized all the way through by the Greek myth referred to in its title; but part of the joke is that any other myth would probably have served just as well to smuggle a semblance of order into a contingent, chaotic world.  

-Terry Eagleton, The Meaning of Life, "The Problem of Meaning," 76.  

 


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The imagination, no matter what psychologists who see it as a faculty of pure illusion tell us, is unwilling to delude itself like some misguided athlete, working out with hollow weights.  

-Earth and Reveries of Will, "The Psychology of Gravity" 301.  

 


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