Illusion makes us question what we perceive to be real, what we might otherwise uncritically accept in the world as given to us. The truth o

To what extent are thinkers of an analytic bent justified in dismissing the idea that there is something on the order of what Adorno calls a mythical residue or substrate in art, in music, in language? What might account for the general discomfort this causes? It likely stems from a slippage that takes the non-provability of the non-rational, non-quantitative, non-discursive (all non's?) elements in art to constitute non-existence of these elements. The claim of non-existenc