Abstract

CROCHICK, José Leon. Diversity: the others of “me”. Revista da FAEEBA: Educação e Contemporaneidade [online]. 2017, vol.26, n.50, pp.35-47. ISSN 0104-7043.  https://doi.org/10.21879/faeeba2358-0194.v26.n50.3547.

The objective of this essay is to present the expression of diversity as other possibilities of constitution of the individual, an expression made possible by the incorporation of culture; which indicates the importance of this for individual differentiation. The means to achieve this goal is the analysis of three novels by Leon Tolstoy: “The death of Ivan Ilitch”, “The Lord and the servant”, and “Family happiness”, written in the nineteenth century, and Michelangelo Antonioni’s film “The Passenger”, produced in the twentieth century. The analysis of these works, permeated by reflections made by Adorno, Benjamin and Horkheimer, indicates distinctions in the presentation of other possibilities of constitution of the self in modernity; in the novels of Tolstoy, the alternative of life based on kindness, serenity and solidarity stands out; in Antonioni’s film, the impossibility of being another is outstanding; the idea that everything is altered so that everything remains as it is visible in this film, in opposition to the concrete perception of the change present in the analyzed novels.

Keywords : Diversity; Modernity; Culture.

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