Contemporary Quixotism or the triumph of life

Abstract

Maffesoli, Michel (2007). O ritmo da vida: variações sobre o imaginário pós-moderno. Tradução de Clóvis Marques. Rio de Janeiro: Record. 223 p. Contemporary Quixotism or the triumph of life — This work by Michel Maffesoli invites one to doubt the concepts that present prejudice and the prejudgment as analytical categories. For beyond Marxism and positivism there is vitalism. This critique is perhaps the principal feature of his work. Since violência Totalitária (Totalitarian violence), Maffesoli has called attention to an understanding of societal dynamism based on phenomenological doing, which attempts to see the subterranean centralism of social experiences with eyes aimed at the hedonistic, corporeal and sensitive dimensions of the world. In ritmo da vida, the author returns to the theme of post-modernity, based on a fundamental posit which he shares with Nietzsche and Galilee, to the effect that: “In spite of everything, there is life! However, it spins!”