Antonio Machado and his socio-human epistemology in "Juan de Mairena"
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Title
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Antonio Machado and his socio-human epistemology in "Juan de Mairena"
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:52668e08375e:11575
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identifier
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12098
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Creator
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Kim, Hyon K.,
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Contributor
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William Sherzer
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Date
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2012
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Romance literature | Philosophy | Modern literature | Antonio Machado | Juan de Mairena | Pensamiento filosofico | Poeta filosofo
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Abstract
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The emergence of modernization at the end of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century in the form of integration of technology into our every day lives brought a profound change in every aspect of human experience and reality. While Heidegger saw as a consequence of that "the objectivization (Verge-genstandlichung) of our ordinary lived experience" as expounded in Sein und Zeit, Antonio Machado through Juan de Mairena finds the root of scientific modernity in materialism (Five Portraits 70). This is not just materialism in the economic sense of quantifying values and services but scientific in the sense that it converts minerals, nature and even living organisms into mathematical and scientific data. Juan de Mairena considers Descartes the initiator of this approach in modernity, which in a way had its influence from the pre-Socratics: Democritus of Abdera in association with the Milesian School and Ionian School. Juan de Mairena's main concern about modernization was the effects technological society would bring to human affairs and the human value system.;To understand Juan de Mairena's concern about the human's place in modernization, I analyze in chapter one passages in Juan de Mairena in relation to various literary and philosophical works such as Kafka's The Castle, Sartre's Nausea, Heidegger's concept of 'Dasein,' Gadamer's analysis of 'Erlebnis' and other related concepts and compositions (all of which deal with the topic of humans coping in a systematized life under modern administration).;In chapter two, I distinguish, through the textual analysis of Juan de Mairena, the difference between the way objects and humans are in phenomena, and explain the reason why Juan de Mairena thinks that the Cartesian scientific method is inappropriate for learning about human beings. Following that, I expose the tenets of Cartesian scientific modernity and finish the chapter with a preliminary description of what is entailed by "socio-human epistemology".;In chapter three, I trace the historical roots of Cartesian scientific modernity and explain briefly the transition between its theoretical conceptions and its materialization in phenomena through applied science and engineering. In addition, I convey the meaning of 'socio-human epistemology' within Juan de Mairena's conception of human experience and reality.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Hispanic & Luso Brazilian Literatures & Languages
