Document Type
Dissertation
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Major/Program
Spanish
First Advisor's Name
Ivan A. Schulman
First Advisor's Committee Title
Committee Chair
Second Advisor's Name
Lisandro Perez
Third Advisor's Name
Erik Camayd-Freixas
Fourth Advisor's Name
Maida Watson
Date of Defense
3-26-2008
Abstract
This dissertation explores the nature of Jose Marti's ethical ideas in relation to the rise of late Nineteenth Century Modernity and in tandem with the deconstruction and subversion of the principal constituencies of colonial and aesthetic discourses. Marti proposes a new paradigm that question the insatiable pursuit of novelty, the hostility towards tradition, the historical perspectivism and a critical stance with regard to social aesthetic Modernity. He also questions the cult of reason, the linear historicism, and the teleological progress framed in philosophical utilitarian pragmatism of bourgeois Modernity. His radical criticism of the structures and institutions of the hegemonic power of the modern state override the ontological and epistemological foundations of Modernity. Marti's deconstruction of the fundamental discourses of euro-centristic Occidental culture leads him, through his ethical writings, to an arqueology of Native American civilizations, thus reinserting, within the false premises of European universalism, his counter-discourse of tradition and the voice of the Other.
Identifier
FI14060128
Recommended Citation
Cenzano, Carlos E., "El paradigma ético de la escritura martiana : desbordes de la modernidad" (2008). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2096.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2096
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