Homo Faber. Accident or Necessity
Homo Faber. Accident or Necessity

Summary/Abstract: In a discussion with the doctrine of historicism, which assumes a stage structure of the historical process and constant progress in the domain of thought and art, Daniel Bell formulated the following remark: The historicist answer is a conceit. Antigone is no child, and her keening over the body of her dead brother is not an emotion of the childhood of the race. Nor is the contemporary tale of Nadezhda Mandelstam, searching for the body of her dead husband (the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, who disappeared in Stalin’s concentration camps) in order to bury him properly, a case of precocity “on a higher plane’”. Take a closer look at the significance of this statement made by the American sociologist. Antigone and Nadezhda Mandelstam.

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