The Meaning of Don Quixote According to René Girard
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- Опубликовано: 10 мар 2023
- Geoffrey Shullenberger (@daily_barbarian) is lecturer at NYU and runs the newsletter and podcast outsidertheory.com. He teaches the Other Life course on René Girard (girardcourse.com).
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Excellent, and I really like the point that Quixote is a distant and fictional character for Cervantes, though by the time of Flaubert's Bovary, the character described is someone living down the street, suggesting that the problems Girard noted were coming to define everyday life. As always, great work from Geoffrey!
very good clear and nuanced
Great content!
Girard looks so much like Phil Leotardo from the Sopranos..
Simon Leys has an interesting discussion about the meaning of Don Quixote in his book "The hall of uselessness."
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"One must live life in a genuine way, passionately, in spite of what other people think. That is the central tenet of "Don Quixote," according to Professor Ilan Stavans"
If you collide that with the 'gamer in the basement' meme it's terribly sad..... attenuation of young men's life into febrile virtual existence....
......to Zuck's Bugs...
At least charging at a windmill was making a dent on the universe, compared to being a zombified 11:03 battery in the Matrix... 😮
Don Quixote is literally a radicalized gamer indeed
I suspect people are just into Girard as a way to suck up to Peter Thiel.