Lost any coherence: The discovery of America in the “crisis of the European conscience”
Keywords:
Discovery of America, Skepticism, Nihilism, Secularization.
Abstract
This paper studies how the Discovery of the New World contributed not only to the decomposition of the Old World, but moreover to the disappearance of the “world” or “cosmos” itself, understood as a whole defined and ordered hierarchically according to trascendent values.Downloads
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Published
2012-10-23
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Castany Prado B. (2012). Lost any coherence: The discovery of America in the “crisis of the European conscience”. Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana, 41, 19-44. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ALHI.2012.v41.40290
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