The only way to have a living relationship with another is through aggression; only those who try to spiritually dominate each other, whether they are individuals or nations, reach a true understanding, a spiritual brotherhood. Only when I attempt to introduce my spirit into the spirit of my neighbor do I admit my neighbor's spirit into my own.
No, no; this is not at all about free circulation, about "laissez faire, laissez passer"; the aim is not to shrug our shoulders in the face of other people's ideas, let alone in the face of their feelings, but to try to hurt them. Hence, and only hence, will they hurt ours and keep them alert.
The condemnation of one who tries to be shaped in the mold of another is that he ceases to be himself and at the same time fails to be the other whom he looks up to, thus he is no one.
An exceptionally timely (for today's Greece) essay from 1906, in which the great Spanish thinker appears to campaign against what he believes "Western Europe" represents. Unamuno clarifies that he does not desire "any method other than that of passion," rejects the scientific correctness of his time, is metaphysical, mystical, medieval. Yet, he is realistic and incisive when he denounces the "fruitless hybridism" that corrupts without enriching the national identity of a country.
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Product Details
- Author
- Miguel de Unamuno
- Publisher
- Roes
- Subtitle
- (arbitrary opinions)
- Original Title
- Sobre la europeización (arbitariedades)
- Language
- Greek
- ISBN-13
- 9789602833964
Edition
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 144
- Dimensions
- 11x17 cm
- Release Date
- 10/2013
- Publication Date
- 2013
Content
- Reader Level
- Classic Texts
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