Joan Fuster: An Intellectual Wounded by Modernity

Abstract

This essay is centred around the work of Joan Fuster, which can be read from the perspective of the concept of “modernity”. Modernity that can be read from two points of view which can coexist in contemporary times: in the first case, the work of Fuster can be understood from the impact of the world of thought born from the Enlightenment and which later on became incarnate especially within scientific thought and the idea of progress. But it can also be read from the perspective of critical thought that has questioned the limits and the validity of modernity itself. The article analyzes things from the point of view that Fuster provided to the concept and his reviews based on his training and reflection.