Harold Bloom, the most loved and hated historical, theoretical and critical literature of the late twentieth century, the most influential and discussed versed in Western culture still alive, often accused of snobbery , jew New York - but to be more fashionable would have preferred to be born "Eskimo woman" - in his most important book, which I barbarously stolen the title of my post, argues that the Western cultural production exists, on this side and beyond the differences , a red thread, a common thread. This thread runs, essentially, Dante-axis Joyce reaches its climax in Shakespeare, and is trying to express, through a ' opera creativa , l’intera conoscenza umana dell’epoca e la relativa visione del mondo. Almeno che io sappia, Bloom si è occupato di qualsiasi forma culturale, eccetto che di cinema e di televisione (magari qualche suo scritto a proposito ci sarà, ma io non lo conosco).
Slavoj Žižek, sloveno, fra i più influenti filosofi a livello globale, ha inaugurato, ai massimi livelli, la tendenza di far dialogare cultura altissima (Spinoza, Hegel, Marx) con quella che si è soliti definire cultura pop : film, television, even pornography. Is his famous book on Matrix (S. Žižek, Welcome to the desert of the real , Rome, 2002), where he sets out, among other many things, that the authors have been inspired by Lacan. E 'self-evident that the vast majority of viewers Matrix "boil" Žižek's claims as "inappropriate"; but for the simple fact that they do not understand a club philosophy and that he did not fuck him to make himself understood by them. Democracy, Žižek would say, is not talking and / or being understood by everyone, but have the freedom to choose their partners, even if only one.
Lost part, in my opinion, in the "Western Canon", has full facilities, the ambition-deception, typically Western, "syncretized" knowledge of time and its worldview. No matter if the thesis in theoretical physics and theology, according to the actual parameters are compatible with each other or not. What matters is the attempt of trying a mettere insieme il sapere in-attuale secondo una prospettiva escatologica (il che, poi, non significa altro, etimologicamente, che parlare delle cose ultime). Lost, ci sono ottime probabilità, secondo me, sarà una pietra miliare della cultura occidentale del XXI secolo, perché, come tutte le opere significative, fa i conti col tempo e col senso.
