Gian Battista Vico postulated three stages of culture and civilization Western theocratic, aristocratic and democratic. The third phase would be followed by chaotic age (or anarchist), which would give rise to a new theocratic age.
Harold Bloom takes up this schematic to interpret the history of writing West. The whole cycle of writing is what he calls Western the Western canon . The Western Canon is properly nell’aspirazione di ciascuna opera a essere eccezione nel confrontarsi con la grandezza . Ci sono poi due tipi di opere canoniche ; il primo è costituito da quel tipo di opere che restano una singolarità che mai assimiliamo del tutto; il secondo è costituito da quelle opere delle cui idiosincrasie restiamo schiavi.
A nessuno fa piacere sentirsi dire to compete with Dante or Shakespeare, but probably it was this struggle for the size to push Joyce to write Finnegans Wake , who - along with Proust, Freud, Kafka and others - opened the anarchic age. There can be no canonical writing without a conditioning difficult to digest and opposite to aspire to the exception. Tradition is not just something that is handed down, but also a conflict between past and future, between what is inherited and aspiration for survival, which is at stake is the inclusion in the Western canon. The lowest common denominator of the Western canon is the relationship with neurotic size, between myth and annihilation. After Dante and Shakespeare, there are hardly any figures that are freed from the anxiety of greatness, because greatness recognizes greatness, and it is foggy.
Personally, I conceive Lost as a phenomenon not only television, but writing. Whether or not elitist in this context I do not care. Neither interests me the relationship between science, philosophy and theology. I think part of the Western canon in its anarchic stage. As the Finnegans Wake Joyce, Lost removable use and makes a serio-comic cycle which itself is part. It is a sign of the banality of television and the pseudo-web which is inevitably placed. The creators of Lost have not chosen their precursors, have been selected. They had the intelligence to consider, however, with-places, and then dismantled.
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