A literary Piece as a Sociological Work: The Concept of Modernity in Karel Čapek’s War With the Newts

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angličtina
Original language name
A literary Piece as a Sociological Work: The Concept of Modernity in Karel Čapek’s War With the Newts
Original language description
In this text, I interpret Karel Čapek’s novel War With the Newts (1936) as a sociological work and analyze the concept of the modern age that it presents. First, I show in what sense Čapek’s work was sociological. Following Theodor Adorno, I suggest that the difference between literature and sociology is not of a fundamental but of a historical and analytical nature, and that what defines sociology is not method, empiricism, or explicitly defined concepts, but the insightful notion of social totality. In Čapek, I analyze a social totality that I find in his concept of the modern age. Such an analysis provides insight into the self-destructive power of modern society. I suggest that Čapek’s portrayal of modernity still applies today and that we can recognize the same patterns he presented in the world around us.
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Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
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