This was my first reaction when reading Don Quixote and while it was in
force,
I did was not captivated by the novel. It becomes interesting in this
context as an
object for the study of history. It was being written and read as the
people's of what
is now Central Mexico were being slaughtered for gold that would be
squandered on
self indulgence.
My second reaction comes closer to quesions of alienation and why the people
around
Don Quixote were (in my view) positively transformed as a consequence of
entering into
his illusionary world.
mike
On 10/13/05, Ricardo Japiassu <rjapias@uol.com.br> wrote:
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> Dear Mike,
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> Maybe could be of some use the words of Hegel on Cervantes' Don Quixote in
> his Aesthetics:
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> "Since that day in which the order founded over legallty completed its
> structure, of a complete prosaic character, the adventurous independecy of
> chivalry ones becomes something old; when, in spite of it, that order
> wants
> to be prolongued and chivalry insists in considering itself as the
> revenger
> of injustices and the help of oppressed, then falls in that ridiculous
> represented by Cervantes in Don Quixote" (p. 206 – Topic: Reconstitution
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> individual independence in The Determination of Ideal)
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