Intellectuality and Artistic Aspect of Author in the Concept of Spinoza's Rationalism (Expressive-Typography on Indonesian New-Age Poem)

Abstract

Intellectuality and Artistic Aspect of Author in the Concept of Spinoza's Rationalism
(Expressive-Typography on Indonesian New-Age Poem). Typography is a rare
course in the study of literature. Sometimes, it is neglected. In this study, we
believed that all parts of literary work contained valuable marks that could benefit
humans and the development of literary studies. Most studies commonly focused
on how an author used figurative language in his work, not typography. In this
study, we investigated and observed in nature intellectuality and aesthetic
preference of Wiji Thukul in the construction of expressive poems on his own. We
used Spinoza's rationalism as an approach for this purpose. In our analysis, we
found that being a member of the democratic party contributed to the
development of Wiji Thukul's intellectuality so that he could become more literate
about social reality, while the experience of being a poet, in any event, had
contributed to his competence and aesthetic preference. In this essence, we
believed that substance, value, and ideology are the most prominent in the current
literary work's content, as well as in its form.
Keywords: Literary studies, intellectuality, Aesthetic, Spinoza, typography