La tradición electivista cubana en busca de una comprensión cósmica de la realidad

Abstract

The article is based on the idea that there are evolutionary patterns during nineteenth-century Cuban elective thinking. It aims to assess these patterns within a highly dynamic context of thought. From Father Caballero to the apostle of the Cuban revolution, there is an ascending path that gains in complexity of thought, and along this path it becomes a demonstrable fact that the understanding of reality progresses toward an aesthetic electivism in José Martí. This electivist stance is grounded not only in the poet-thinker's explicit intention but also in the attitudinal dimension that makes Martí an aesthetic individual in his own everyday life. A systemic and complex method is adopted by perceiving the non-linearity of causal relationships that act as determinants when accounting for a verifiable growth in the dimensions in which Cuban thinking intervenes within colonial society.