Quixote’s Pilgrimage to Beauty as a Message for the Present

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://caritasetveritas.cz/contents/cev/2022/02.pdf" target="_blank" >http://chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://caritasetveritas.cz/contents/cev/2022/02.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.32725/cetv.2022.026" target="_blank" >10.32725/cetv.2022.026</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Quixote’s Pilgrimage to Beauty as a Message for the Present

Original language description

The article expands the existing literary interpretations of Cervantes’ Don Quixote (interpretation of the character as a symbol and as the first existential hero of world literature), adding a philosophical-anthropological (especially phenomenological) and theological interpretation. The text deals with the aesthetic, ethical, and religious reflection on the character of Don Quixote through the prism of a new ‘reading’ of the novel and its protagonist in the spirit of the Catholic line of interpretation and the phenomenon of beauty. The interpretation of Don Quixote as a knight, saint, and fool is focused on the perspective of realising his ‘via pulchritudinis’ (path of beauty). As a pilgrim looking for Beauty, he is sought especially through the application of Hans Urs von Balthasar’s theology of beauty. The author arrives at the concept of Don Quixote as a knight of beauty, whose love for Dulcinea is an analogy of the soul’s relationship with God, the source of all harmony and beauty. The text provides an argument supporting this interpretation. It shows the beauty of a life transformed by love and freedom, creating a bridge to transcendence. Don Quixote becomes a real patron of the Catholic literary heritage, and the author of the article recommends ‘reading’ it through the lens of beautifulness.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Caritas et Veritas

ISSN

1805-0948

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

35-51

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85156266158