Roberto Murillo’s flight from Cartago: a reappraisal of the myth of Cartago

 

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Verfasser: Gómez, Paulo
Format: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Publikationsdatum:2026
Beschreibung:The myth of Cartago has recently been read as an expression of Roberto Murillo’s conservative and humanist longing and has been situated within its specific historical context. While this essay does not challenge the substance of that interpretation, it argues that such a reading overlooks the conceptual limits of myth in Murillo’s thought. It therefore proposes a more precise interpretation of the role of myth in his work, based on his understanding of imagination and the idea of origin, before examining how these notions operate in relation to the idyllic image of Cartago. Drawing on a genealogical reading of Murillo’s newspaper articles on Cartago and their connection to his main philosophical theses and early writings, the essay concludes that the myth of Cartago can be understood as a particular form of imaginative flight. This reading shifts the explanatory weight that any historicist interpretation might place on its nature.
Land:Portal de Revistas UNED
Institution:Universidad Estatal a Distancia
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNED
OAI Identifier:oai:revistas.uned.ac.cr:article/6673
Online Zugang:https://revistas.uned.ac.cr/index.php/index/article/view/6673
Stichwort:Filosofía de la cultura
Imaginación creativa
Metafísica
Mitología
Creative imagination
Metaphysics
Mythology
Philosophy of culture
Imagination créatrice
Métaphysique
Mythologie
Philosophie de la culture