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Mundo, fortuna y política en el barroco hispano del siglo xvii

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    Gálvez Aguirre, Luis Javier
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    Gálvez Aguirre, Luis Javier

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    Format:
    Journal article
    Language:
    Spanish; Castilian
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    text (article)
    Published:
    2022
    In:
    Hipogrifo: Revista de Literatura y Cultura del Siglo de Oro ISSN 2328-1308 Vol. 10, Nº. 2, 2022, pags. 77-92
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    This paper will trace the essential guidelines that allow the comprehension of the relationship among three reconfigured concepts of the Modern Age (which are received from its Greco-Latin and Christian heritage): Fortune, Providence and action (in ethical and political terms). Even if this relationship is also studied in the Renaissance, the Hispanic Baroque's proposals (such as Saavedra Fajardo, Juan de Mariana or Baltasar Gracián) let us speculate an alternative Modern Age to the one which theorizes the development of Philosophies of History in the XVIIIth century. Gracián's awareness of the immanent logic of providence will force him to partially abandon his interests in politics, as well as he must redefine the role of heroism in a baroque view that highlights the vanity of this world


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