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[xmca] Litost

Hello Mike,

I have read the chapter of Kunderas on Litost,which really it seems that is a piece of real classic literature work. I have been greatly inspired by Milan Kundera in my teenage years and it was a real pleasure to come in contact again with his such deep and inclusive spirit.

One wonders though what constitutes a classical work in literature? Through that chapter one can just be amazed of how a person (the writer,Kundera in our case) can grasp the human condition in its movement. But what is that movement? Is it the human conciousness unfolding it self by the means of cultural-historical tools?Or is the human condition just manifesting it self just as it is by not taking into consideration the limitation of the given cultural-historical condition of the time?
My point is that: Is Litost a state of mind that is subject to cultural-historical mediation or is a state of mind that transcends any possible given cultural-historical condition?


Nektarios

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Date: Saturday, April 27, 2013
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Thanks for posting Smolucha paper bj.
Read and discuss folks.
Mike

The paper is posted on the MCA site at

        http://lchc.ucsd.edu/mca/Paper/index.html
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