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- Title
El viaje como filosofía poética en el ensayo vital de Santayana.
- Authors
SALINAS, VICENTE CERVERA
- Abstract
This piece of work is to revisit the essay "Philosophy of the Journey" written by George Santayana in 1912 and posthumously published after Daniel Cory's revision of the disperse work of his friend and maestro. This work is a synthesis of his poetic and materialist philosophy applied to the idea of life as a journey, which stems from his own human and intellectual experience. A transversal reading of his memoirs Persons and Places enables us to confirm the hypothesis that this essay is lively ingrained in the author's biography, a biography characterized by an understanding of the world as a permanent host, and the idea of the traveler as a subject who necessarily has roots, and contrasts the experiences of his itinerary with his lineage, the knowledge he has acquired while living and everything else involved in the poetics of the place of origin. The first part of the essay focuses on the psychomotor evolution of living species. The second one, that leads us to the conclusion, sketches, as a sort of diachronic and conceptual typology, the different modalities of the human journey. In so doing, Santayana produces a sharp history of the journey as both an outstanding expression of the nature of cultures and as a fundamental chapter in the anthropology of nationalities.
- Publication
Teorema, 2008, Vol 28, p55
- ISSN
0210-1602
- Publication type
Academic Journal