Hamlet ou la crise de l’esprit européen selon Valéry

Carnets

关键词: crisis;    spirit;    Hamlet;    myth;    values;   

DOI  :  10.4000/carnets.2310

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Valéry chooses precisely the myth of Hamlet to formulate a thought on the European evolution after the First World War which generated anxiety. According to Valéry, the European man is at the meeting point of admirably integrated influences, moving towards very high productions of mind. Now, at this moment when Hamlet becomes aware that every civilization – even the European one – is mortal, he realizes the necessity of renovating the social order while facing the spectres threatening to annihilate him. The European’s duty is like the Danish prince’s: facing the crisis of values, he must at least save the spirit, but this operation risks to make him sink into a deeper inhumanity. Thus, the current hesitation about the meaning of Europe gets clearer in the light of this Hamlet which is "tottering between both abysses of order and disorder".

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