Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy

Volume 39, 2018

Philosophy and Literature

The Existence, Identity and Loneliness of the Migrant Human Being
Present and Persistence of Ancient Greece in Desaparecer (Disappear) Theatrical Play

This article proposes a philosophical reflection about the underlying bonds between the Greek Classical Drama and Contemporary Theatre, with special attention to its concomitants in the treatment of the personal identity, the periplus towards revealed self-conscious and the self-estrangement in an alienated environment. It presents the context of Valencian Contemporary Theatre at that effect, and observes, from the point of the complex questions raised to the individual by the immigration, the possible existing parallelisms between the author’s preoccupations and some of the universal and atemporal themes in the Classic Greek Drama. It concludes pointing out the cost of autonomy implicated by the modern civic identity and suggesting its dissolution like a prosperous journey to the rediscovery of liberty and consciousness.