• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Conservatism and Critical Boldness

Conservatism and Critical Boldness

Paperback

General Sociology

ISBN10: 6208347815
ISBN13: 9786208347819
Publisher: Our Knowledge Publishing
Published: Dec 3 2024
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In this book I analyse two novels by authors from different literary fields, although similar in terms of broader political issues in their respective countries: Machado de Assis's Esaú e Jacó and Dostoevsky's Os Demônios. The former problematises and questions the change of political regime in Brazil from the monarchy to the republic, showing how the intellectual environment was affected by the political framework. The second, in turn, criticises the sudden changes made by the aristocracy, as well as combating the modernising wave coming from Western Europe. In The Devils, the theme of the novel is the revolutionary movements with a socialist slant and, in this context, it also deals with themes related to nihilism and the dangers of a collapse of Russian tradition. The intellectual environment is also thematised, including implicit and direct attacks on certain authors.

Also from

Uchigasaki, Minoru

Also in

General Sociology