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Saul Bellow's Sixth Sense: The Sense of History

1982; University of Toronto Press; Volume: 13; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3138/cras-013-01-03

1710-114X

Judie Newman,

Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism

For Nietzsche, the historical sense in our time forms a sixth sense, pervading the philosophy, history and culture of the modern era.1 For most critics, however, the notion of a "sixth sense" operating in the novels of Saul Bellow more readily suggests a sense of transcendent realities, Platonic homeworlds, Steineresque meditations and intimations of immortality. Overwhelmingly, critical orthodoxy sees Bellow as a writer more concerned with the universal than with the contingent and the particular.2