Medicine and dogmatism in "Neguijon" by Fernando Iwasaki
This article examines how in the novel Neguijon of the Peruvian writer Fernando Iwasaki, medicine serves as an epistemological symbol through which a skeptical conception of knowledge is expressed. The basically speculative and even reflexive quality of medicine from the 16th and 17th centuries woul...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2012 |
| Country: | Perú |
| Institution: | Academia Peruana de la Lengua |
| Repository: | Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistas.apl.org.pe:article/96 |
| Online Access: | https://revistas.apl.org.pe/index.php/boletinapl/article/view/96 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Philosophy and literature Epistemology Skepticism Fernando Iwasaki epistemological Methapor Filosofía y literatura Epistemología Escepticismo Metáfora epistemológica |
| Summary: | This article examines how in the novel Neguijon of the Peruvian writer Fernando Iwasaki, medicine serves as an epistemological symbol through which a skeptical conception of knowledge is expressed. The basically speculative and even reflexive quality of medicine from the 16th and 17th centuries would be both a metaphor of dogmatism which dominated the Spanish and Hispano-American societies from the Counter-Reformation, as well as the dogmatism that tempts humans at any time and place. |
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