Chekhov's Mistress
Prospect: A Rational Quixote
by Bud Parr
From Prospect Magazine:
…without Cervantes’s own constant shifting between tradition and modernity, we might have remained for longer in a world of superstition and dogma. “Enlightenment is man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity,” Kant wrote in 1784, 180 years after the first publication of the Quixote. “The motto of Enlightenment is therefore: Sapere aude! Have courage to use your own intelligence.” On the knight’s 400th anniversary we can see that this was the courage that Don Quixote has bequeathed us.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: April 20, 2005
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