Pierwsza nowoczesna retrotopia? Don Kichote Miguela de Cervantesa w perspektywie późnego Zygmunta Baumana
The First Modern Retrotopia? Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote in the Perspective of Zygmunt Bauman’s Late Works

Summary/Abstract: The article considers Cervantes’s classical work through the prism of retrotopia, asunderstood in late Bauman. Retrotopia is a double negation of utopia, an attemptto return to an imaginary past, which usually happens in the face of an uncertain future.The first part of the article indicates a clear analogy between the conceptualization ofretrotopia and Don Quixote’s key themes. These include the issue of nostalgia for timespast, the problem of violence, or a return to tribal thinking in terms of “us” versus “them.”The second part of the text briefly examines Don Quixote as an expression of retrotopianlonging for an imaginary past of a Golden Age, an idyllic era of justice and humanism.

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