Medicine and dogmatism in "Neguijon" by Fernando Iwasaki

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46744/bapl.201201.005
Keywords: Philosophy and literature, Epistemology, Skepticism, Fernando Iwasaki, epistemological Methapor

Abstract

This article examines how in the novel Neguijon of the Peruvian writer Fernando Iwasaki, medicine serves as an epistemological symbol through which a skeptical conception of knowledge is expressed. The basically speculative and even reflexive quality of medicine from the 16th and 17th centuries would be both a metaphor of dogmatism which dominated the Spanish and Hispano-American societies from the Counter-Reformation, as well as the dogmatism that tempts humans at any time and place.

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Author Biography

Bernat Castany Prado, Universidad de Barcelona

Profesor de Literatura Hispanoamericana y Estudios Literarios en la Universidad de Barcelona. Es licenciado con premio extraordinario en Filosofía y en Filología Hispánica por dicha universidad, donde se doctoró en Filología Hispánica con la tesis «El escepticismo en la obra de Jorge Luis Borges». También es doctor en Estudios Culturales por la Universidad de Georgetown, Washington D.C., con la tesis «Literatura posnacional en Hispanoamérica». Ha publicado los libros Literatura posnacional (EditUm, 2007), Que nada se sabe. El escepticismo en la obra de Jorge Luis Borges (Cuadernos de América Sin Nombre, 2012) y es coautor con Mercedes Serna de una Antología crítica de la poesía modernista hispanoamericana (Alianza, 2009). Ha publicado diversos artículos en revistas como Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana, Monteagudo, y Analecta Malacitana.

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Published
2012-06-30
How to Cite
Castany Prado, B. (2012). Medicine and dogmatism in "Neguijon" by Fernando Iwasaki. Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua, 53(53), 113-130. https://doi.org/10.46744/bapl.201201.005
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No 53 (2012): Enero - Junio
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Articles

Copyright (c) 2012 Bernat Castany Prado

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