Patito feo, Henry Miller y el espíritu emprendedor entre las palabras intempestivas

Abstract

This essay establishes a close dialogue between philosophy, literature and the history of the ideas. It is related to the production and consumption systems in our modern society, and the way as a man in his human condition is defined into the doctrine of the efficacy which was inherited from the XVIII century.
The notion of the social organism that restricted the possibilities of each individual and the idea which Thomas Carlyle proposed like that one of the hero are mentioned. Opposite to the notion of the successful man with a leadership spirit, the perspective that Henry Miller shows in his novels Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn with the one before. The hero of Carlyle who is one of the fundamental inspirations for the “Führer” by Adolf Hitler is thought from the viewpoint of the vagabond by Miller. A philosophical reflection which finds its critical basis in the literature.