TY - CHAP
T1 - Travel literature as an example of human flourishing
AU - Pérez-Martínez, Ángel
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Travel Literature can be a way of approaching eudaimonia and an interdisciplinary meeting point. When travelling, the individual is exposed to a multiple encounter experience. On the other hand, travelling is an intergenerational experience, and it will be increasingly so. From this perspective, it is possible to enrich studies by focusing on tourism and globalization, but also on relationships with technology. It is also possible, from this angle, to open new ways of developing new narratives that deepen in the encounter with oneself, with other cultures and that define new values in an ethics of human flourishing. The attempt to synthetize Travel Literature, an "elusive genre'', does not only contribute to sort out a tenuous typology, but also evidences the need to keep thinking about two fundamental dimensions of human existence; the dimension of circumstance, and the dimension of imagination.
AB - Travel Literature can be a way of approaching eudaimonia and an interdisciplinary meeting point. When travelling, the individual is exposed to a multiple encounter experience. On the other hand, travelling is an intergenerational experience, and it will be increasingly so. From this perspective, it is possible to enrich studies by focusing on tourism and globalization, but also on relationships with technology. It is also possible, from this angle, to open new ways of developing new narratives that deepen in the encounter with oneself, with other cultures and that define new values in an ethics of human flourishing. The attempt to synthetize Travel Literature, an "elusive genre'', does not only contribute to sort out a tenuous typology, but also evidences the need to keep thinking about two fundamental dimensions of human existence; the dimension of circumstance, and the dimension of imagination.
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/018c3c96-a6a0-362d-b1a6-9416158b9bac/
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-09786-7_13
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-09786-7_13
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-3-031-09785-0
SP - 197
EP - 209
BT - Human Flourishing
A2 - Las Heras, Mireia
A2 - Grau Grau, Marc
A2 - Rofcanin, Yasin
PB - Springer International Publishing AG
CY - Cham
ER -