Simpatía por el demonio
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32870/vel.vi4.34Keywords:
Evil, Banality, Gnosticism, Double, Empathy, Sexual morals, PosthumanAbstract
It has been noted that several TV series have recently stretched the capacity of audiences to identify with evil characters. Based on an overview of several works of fiction, both literary and visual, and essays, the author proposes that we might have entered a period of ethical transition, in areas such as sexual
morals and the post-human. We may be living through a historical period analogous to the one described by French medievalist Jacques Le Goff in his classic study The Birth of Purgatory (1981): the emergence of a higher degree of ethical complexity, such as the one that required the “invention” in the 12th Century of a
transitory intermediate state of purification and atonement of sins.
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