A sociology-philosophical-literary study focusing on the consequences the downfall of Positivist philosophy and weltanschaung brought to the Western hemisphere. All in all an unprecedented crisis of consciousness. The Positivist era, based on unlimited scientific optimism, at the turn of the century failed to keep up with its promises. History proved it wrong: the contradiction of the industrial revolution reveals that evolution not always is synonymous of progress.The unleashing of vulgar imperialism confirms that the romantic nationalism easily turns to be a violent colonialism guilty of...
A sociology-philosophical-literary study focusing on the consequences the downfall of Positivist philosophy and weltanschaung brought to the Western h...
The first attempt of literature in Post-Ideology China has more than ever assumed a social function, a violent denounce of what was produced until then. The New Era opens with a shy quest for identity. As the best way to penetrate history is through comparison, the only possible approach to decode contemporary China is to compare it to a different reality. Reading Scar Literature through Existentialist lens will introduce the reader to a different application of Modernism, not anymore as a reaction to the crisis of Positivism but as a reaction to Maoism. And if the hypothesis of an...
The first attempt of literature in Post-Ideology China has more than ever assumed a social function, a violent denounce of what was produced until the...
