Resumen

BELTRAN ALMERIA, Luis. No Borders. Antinomies of Literary Studies. Iztapalapa. Rev. cienc. soc. humanid. [online]. 2020, vol.41, n.89, pp.9-27.  Epub 07-Oct-2020. ISSN 2007-9176.  https://doi.org/10.28928/ri/892020/atc1/beltranalmerial.

Literary studies are in a deep crisis. That crisis is the same one that affects the entire field of the humanities. Its origin goes back to its birth. Historical Humanities were born in the 19th century to contribute to the construction of national states. At the present time, Humanities must be instruments to build the unification of humanity. They must be humanities without borders. In the context of literary studies, this means overcoming the antinomies that prevent further research. These antinomies are the old and the new literary history, the dilemma between literary theory and history, the confrontation between formalism and sociology and, above all, the dogma that literature pursues beauty. From Schiller, there is an alternative to this overview based on the idea of aesthetic form -the inner form- and on a theory of imagination inspired by the philosophy of history. For some decades, the big history project is pointing a new framework to overcome these antinomies.

Palabras llave : Humanities; new literary history; hermeneutics; aesthetic form; big history.