The call of the wild. Mythological and Nietzschean reading of Jack London's novel.

Abstract

In these pages we can find a brief reflection on Jack London's The Call of the Wild. A novel in which it is possible to read some of the most important ideas of the philosopher/literary/provocateur Friedrich Nietzsche, being also a story with the category of "myth". Ideas that we have been able to develop in the Faculty of Educational Sciences of A Coruña, in a series of workshops that we wanted to call Free-losophy, open, without age or degree limitations. Perhaps the need to show how mythical thought continues to work in our formation, psyche, conscience, culture. The narration, the explanation of an ontological, moral sense, an order of the world against the chaos of nonsense. Perhaps the need to vindicate forgotten readings, the classics, the youth or adventure novel, various forms of myth. We highlight, as the most important objective, the pedagogical capacity of myth, literature and philosophy.