AUC Philologica (Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica) is an academic journal published by Charles University. It publishes scholarly articles in a large number of disciplines (English, German, Greek and Latin, Oriental, Romance and Slavonic studies, as well as in phonetics and translation studies), both on linguistic and on literary and cultural topics. Apart from articles it publishes reviews of new academic books or special issues of academic journals.
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AUC PHILOLOGICA, Vol 2015 No 1 (2015), 135–149
Baroja: anarquía y piedad
[Baroja: Anarchy and Piety]
Juan A. Sánchez
published online: 29. 04. 2015
abstract
This article tries to present two main concepts of Baroja’s thought: anarchism and piety. His anarchism is a literary and philosophical one and the product of a sincere relativism. But relativism and ethics are not easily compatible; and in some way, his ethics is also relative. Through the analysis of some of his novels and, mainly, of his essays, we try to articulate this two concepts, and to answer the question: how a relativist can be so near to christianity in ethics? In order to do so, we compare Baroja’s thought and work with some anarquist essays of La revista blanca, one of the most important anarchist publications of around 1900, when anarchism in Spain was in its peak. The conclusion is that Baroja, the contradictory man and writer, is equaly far away and near to anarchism, and that, in some way, it is possible to see him as a crypto-christian in regard to his ethics.
keywords: anarchism; piety; Pío Baroja; Schopenhauer; Nietzsche; darwinism; relativism anarquía; piedad; Pío Baroja; Schopenhauer; Nietzsche; darwinismo; relativismo
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ISSN: 0567-8269
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