The Madness of the Best of Us. Ulysses, Kurtz and the Frontiers of Friendship

Abstrakt

The chapter analyses the philosophical coordinates and the actual limits and spatial frontiers of friendship in the shared context of Dante's Ulysses, Conrad's Kurtz, renaissance astronomy and the contemporary visions of the space travel.

Klíčová slova

• Ulysses
• Dante
• Francesca
• Divine Comedy
• Kurtz
• voyage
• Conrad
• astronomy
• friendship
• space travel
• space
• Kepler
• renaissance