Rodo, Jose Enrique (Josц? Enrique RodцЁ)

1871 - 1917

Member of Parliament (1902-08). Promoted the idea of spiritual and cultural community of LA, criticized the negative impact of North American imperialism in the field of culture. From the standpoint of romantic humanism opposed positivism and pragmatism. In the essay "Ariel" (1900, Russian translation of the passage 1965) compares the spiritual values of the Romance and Anglo-Saxon cultures in America, criticizes the selfishness and commercialism of the North American bourgeois civilization. In the collections of literary and sociological works "Motives Proteus" (1908), . Vyshka Prospero (1913), . permeated by the idea of Latin American cultural unity, . considered the problem of moral formation and spiritual freedom of the individual, . defended the idea of "spiritual aristocracy", . theory of "heroes and the crowd", . Preaching at the same time, the idea of active transforming function of literature,
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