Lost Memory, Lost on the Way: the Anti-Humanistic Skepticism in Pavel Vezhinov’s Novel Libra Cover Image
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Изгубената памет, изгубеното по пътя: антихуманистичният скептицизъм в романа „Везни“ на Павел Вежинов
Lost Memory, Lost on the Way: the Anti-Humanistic Skepticism in Pavel Vezhinov’s Novel Libra

Author(s): Plamen Antov
Subject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Philosophical Traditions, Aesthetics, Special Branches of Philosophy, Bulgarian Literature, Existentialism, Philosophy of Science, Phenomenology
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: Pavel Vezhinov; anti-humanism; nature; biology; evolution; еcology

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the last novel of Pavel Vezhinov–Libra (1982), which in a narrower sense also culminates the last, clearly separated period/section in the writer’s work–the philosophical-scientific one (after the novel The Barrier, 1976). Here, the novel’s fiction masks in a highly stripped-down fashion a central scientific theory, both civilizational and biological–of human evolution as devolution. Part of a larger study, the article discusses the P. Vezhinov’s radical anti-humanist criticism in the broad context of late modern philosophical skepticism (Heidegger, Deep Ecology) and its autochthonous reflections in Bulgarian literature during the second half of the twentieth century.

  • Issue Year: XXXII/2023
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 83-105
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Bulgarian