Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/08935_Field_TCGG T700.txt

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     Renaissance literature who seeks by action to bring the
     world into harmony with his own plans and ideals.
     Cervantes’ irony lies in the fact that while overtly his hero
     battles against the new (the early manifestations of
     middle-class life) in the name of the old (the feudal
     system), actually he attempts to sanction a new
     principle. This principle consists, basically, in the
     autonomy of individual thinking and feeling. The dynamics
     of society have come to demand a continuous and active
     transformation of reality; the world must be perpetually
     constructed anew. Don Quixote recreates his world even
     though he does so in a fantastic and solipsistic fashion.
     The honor for which he enters the lists is the product of
     his thinking, not of socially established and accepted
     values. He defends those whom he considers worthy of
     his protection and assails those he believes to be wicked.