Ключевой вопрос этой книги: как выглядит XX столетие, если отсчитывать его с 1945 года — момента начала глобализации, разделения мира на Восточный и Западный блоки, Нюрнбергского процесса и атомного взрыва в Хиросиме? Авторский взгляд охватывает все континенты и прослеживает те общие гуманитарные процессы, которые протекали в странах, вовлеченных и не вовлеченных во Вторую мировую войну. Гумбрехт считает, что у современного человека изменилось восприятие времени, он больше не может существовать в парадигме прогресса, движения вперед и ухода минувшего в прошлое. По мысли исследователя, наше время — время «латентности», подспудного, скрытого сосуществования мн
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht is the Albert Guérard Professor in Literature in the Departments of Comparative Literature and of French & Italian (and by courtesy, he is affiliated with the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures/ILAC, the Department of German Studies, and the Program in Modern Thought & Literature). As a scholar, Gumbrecht focuses on the histories of the national literatures in Romance language (especially French, Spanish, and Brazilian), but also on German literature, while, at the same time, he teaches and writes about the western philosophical tradition (almost exclusively on non-analytic philosophy) with an emphasis on French and German nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts. In addition, Gumbrecht tries to analyze and to understand forms of aesthetic experience 21st-century everyday culture. Over the past forty years, he has published more than two thousand texts, including books, translated into more than twenty languages. In Europe and in South America, Gumbrecht has a presence as a public intellectual; whereas, in the academic world, he has been acknowledged by ten honorary doctorates in seven different countries: Canada, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Portugal, Russia, and Georgia. He has also held a large number of visiting professorships, at the Collège de France, University of Lisbon, University of Manchester, and the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, among others. In the spring of 2017, he was a Martin Buber Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Gosto da franqueza ao autor, de como ele revela o que sabe e o que não sabe sem problemas, quase equivalendo seu conhecimento com sua dúvida. É uma forma honesta de investigar.
O autor reflete sobre o pós-Segunda Guerra na Alemanha. Transparece uma ideia de imobilidade (latência), como se o período não tivesse sido superado. Cita Esperando Godot, o Anjo Exterminador, Entre Quatro Paredes (peça de Sartre), Grande Sertão, Veredas, dentre outras obras, para justificar sua perspectiva. Também cita o Homem Revoltado de Albert Camus para indicar o descontentamento com as utopias impulsionadas pelo marxismo. Ele próprio, o autor, desiludido com o marxismo.
Cita a Guerra Fria e seus eventos que "quase aconteceram", mas não “na verdade”. Cita também o conceito de má-fé de Sartre, que destaca o problema de resistir a ser si mesmo, não ser franco; assim como a dificuldade de ser realmente quem somos, pois temos sempre a expectativa de sermos melhores: “... ser nós mesmos — moldar a nossa própria existência e convencermo-nos de que isso é o que queremos ser — implica a necessidade de esconder de nós mesmos o que não encaixa com o que acreditamos ser”.
Gumbrecht fala bastante de seu próprio passado, das experiências que teve ao longo do desenrolar do século XX e do começo do seguinte. É uma leitura muito enriquecedora.
Gumbrecht came of age after WWII and has been concerned with the buried past (my idea) and its lingering effect on the concept of time which he sees as changed by postmodern wrinkling. Gumbrecht's autobiography plays a critical role in the development of the book though his postmodern ethos keeps the narrative from unfolding traditionally.
It is a wothwhile read--though I'll have to return to it . . . appreciatively.