Don Quixote and Quixotism Phenomenon
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https://doi.org/10.5944/rdh.20.2013.12900Keywords:
Vital Reason, Christian Socratism, Irony, Game, Modern AgeAbstract
This article studies Quixotism phenomenon, ingredient of vital reason, and, consequently, of human behaviour. However, it distinguishes between the mistake of static quixotism and the right conduct of the dynamic one. In order to do so, it makes use of Ortega y Gasset's concept of Vital Reason, and Don Quixotes as well. Concerning the first one, it highlights the insufficiency of its content since it has not fulfilled the dynamic quixotism, that is to say, because, with the intention to criticize La Manchas Knights excessive idealism, it ends up proposing other quixotic person. Anyway, this article points out how the ironic quixotism phenomenon is not a game, for which reason it discusses certain Don Quixotes recent interpretations.
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