Del espíritu de la época
ISSN: 0212-4130
Year of publication: 2004
Issue: 22
Pages: 133-144
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista de Filología de la Universidad de La Laguna
Abstract
We owe to William Hazlitt’s The Spirit of the Age one of the best known descriptions and definitions of Romanticism. If anybody would like to make a similar analysis in regard to postmodern theory and praxis it might not be a great surprise to find out that some of the names that immediately come to mind to many people have under persistent attack in the past years not so much for their ideas but rather for what they represent. It would be a mistake to take for granted that all names represent the same things. As the furore for theory seems to abate, it seems to be high time to assess which are those names that best represent the spirit of postmodernity.