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William Wordsworth
El preludio
ciencia y arte Disenchantment
William Wordsworth
The Prelude
Science and Art
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Resumen
Gran parte de la literatura crítica dedicada a interpretar el trabajo de W. Wordsworth intenta, por un lado, superar y moderar, o, por otro lado, aceptar directamente la manifiesta oposición contra la ciencia y las prácticas científicas que el poeta sostiene, principalmente a lo largo de su obra The Prelude. Examinaré la base conceptual de tal actitud hostil analizando el léxico utilizado en esta obra. Los resultados obtenidos permiten confirmar la hostilidad de Wordsworth hacia la ciencia, y más precisamente, el prejuicio de que la ciencia moderna no permitiría una percepción humanizada de la naturaleza. Pero argumento que esta actitud se debe a una latente imagen encantada del mundo, en sentido weberiano, más adecuada para la descripción sentimental que para la percepción y descripción del paisaje natural basadas en el conocimiento explicativo de la naturaleza.
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