Hence they excluded mythology from their cultural systems whose characteristics were defined as “civil and modern”. In “The Rehabilitation of Myth: Vico’s ‘New Science’”, “Joseph Mali stresses that the thinkers of the enlightenment identified “the mythical” as “savage and ancient”. I – Vico and Adorno & Horkheimer: Mythology and Enlightenment In the meantime, I’ll illustrate my arguments with a brief look at Kafka’s story, “Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk”. Furthermore, Vico’s idea that regards mythology as fiction which is a true story of social realities coincides with the ways in which Mikhail Bakhtin underscores in his theories of heteroglossia in the novel and of language as a socio-political entity.
Secondly, what I will argue is that the way Vico reinterprets the notion of mythology and rejects to maintain the binary oppositions with regard to the understanding of mythology and history, makes him one of the foremost thinkers of deconstruction. In this short article, firstly I will briefly mention Vico and Adorno & Horkheimer in relation to the ways in which these thinkers interpret the relation between mythology and enlightenment.
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