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40Universality in the making The case for an expanded genealogyTropos. Rivista di Ermeneutica e Critica Filosofica 14 (1): 13-36. 2022.This paper studies five approaches on the future of alterity that awaits ideas and doctrines. According to these predictions, embedded in texts by Weber, Meinecke, Butterfield, Merleau-Ponty and Koselleck, the coming forms of thinking shall endure the same destiny affecting the ideas of the past because they will evolve without relying on historical sameness. The future of Western thought, in short, is bound to an unpredictable “destiny of otherness”. These claims, taken together, outline a redi…Read more
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15On Gadamer's Heteronomy Argument: The "Irruption" of Reality vs. its "Strategic Excision"Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics 24 (1): 96-112. 2022.The aim of this paper is to find out whether Gadamer is entitled to hold together his finitist commitment to the heteronomy of art and thought, and his advocacy of an "endless conversation with itself" of humankind. We focus on three texts: Gadamer’s dismissal of Carl Schmitt’s outside-in account of the heteronomy implied by the "irruption of reality" in the play Hamlet and, as Archimedean point, Shakespeare’s "excision of reality" according to Stephen Greenblatt, and its inside-out heteronomi…Read more
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7Spinoza’s Conatus Undoes Bourdieu’s HabitusConatus 6 (2). 2021.Bourdieu’s intermittent allusions to Spinoza’s conatus disclose the weaknesses of his concept of habitus. A thorough inspection of his involvement with the Spinozist legacy reveals a long-lasting inconsistency, for he expects that conatus will assist him in both 1) grounding the habitus and solving the uncertainties that surround this notion by endorsing a strong conatus, impervious to the resistances it will eventually encounter; and 2) re-instating agency in the structuralist mindset, a progra…Read more
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2Les idees que s'oculten en el temps - Dificultats teòriques i perspectives crítiques en la història del pensamentEdicions Universitat Barcelona. 1997.Es tracta d'una aproximació a les qüestions i els problemes de mètode que planteja la història de la filosofia. Se la pot considerar com una obra dirigida primordialment a tots els alumnes universitaris d'història de la filosofia, sigui quin sigui el seu nivell, i tant si la història de la filosofia que estudien és antiga, medieval o moderna.
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6The primary aim of this paper is to explain the change that the multi-faceted conception of Nature in Merleau-Ponty’s oeuvre went through when he dissected Schelling’s Naturphilosophie in the famed lectures on the concept of Nature held over a three-year period at the Collège de France. As it is well known, Merleau-Ponty’s own philosophy of Nature had been steadily evolving since his philosophical debut. A former classical or “naturalist” conception of nature as “nature-in-itself,” depicted as a…Read more
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252On the Political Rewriting of the Past. The aporiae of the Bielefeld SchoolLo Sguardo. Rivista di Filosofia 2 (29): 163-182. 2019.In the last third of the 20th century, the Bielefeld School of social history, headed by Hans- Ulrich Wehler and Jürgen Kocka, rose to prominence. It had contrasting concerns: the focus on structures and processes of development sidelined intentional action and coexisted with a political rewriting of the past that indicted the interests and decisions of dominant elites in Germany from 1870 to 1933. History was viewed, oddly enough, as retrospective politics. This article analyses the main aporia…Read more
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9Institution at the Crossroads: Ontological Extension or Corporeal Restatement?Chiasmi International 11 201-244. 2009.The shortcomings of Merleau-Ponty’s crucial concept of “institution” led him into a turning point where the way out he selected was actually much inferior, as regards the prospects of fulfillment that were latent in his thought, to the alternative path he did not take.
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13Penser le visuel, visualiser la pensée. Le modèle perceptif et la politique de la visionChiasmi International 14 295-321. 2012.Thinking the Visual, Visualizing the Thought.A perceptual and Political Model of VisionMerleau-Ponty’s program of perceptivizing thought has depoliticizing effects that, though he does not recognize them, undermine his understanding of politics. These anti-political consequences, moreover, bring out the internal difficulties of his anti-intellectualist starting point. There are three areas in which Merleau-Ponty gave a thorough application, though with unequal success, of his perception-based mo…Read more
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261Huérfanos de Sofía: elogio y defensa de la enseñanza de la filosofía (edited book)Fórcola. 2014.La filosofía fue entre nosotros, durante largo tiempo, un “juego social”, en las últimas décadas se ha venido transformando en (pseudo)campo, y en la actualidad está expuesta a sucumbir a la heteronomía, decayendo a la degradada situación de “espacio de servicios”. Así la doctrina de Bourdieu esclarece el surgimiento, la situación actual, y en cierto modo también la peripecia futura de la filosofía en España. Y al mismo tiempo consigue explicar porque, en este preciso momento, es plausible el pe…Read more
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3Un caso sorprendente de mutación conceptual: el avatar contemporáneo de la comprensión y la explicaciónIn David Pérez Chico, Rodríguez Suárez & Luisa Paz (eds.), Explicar y Comprender, Plaza Y Valdés Editores. 2011.The age-old controversy pitting explanation against understanding has amazingly mutated in our time because nowadays each of these procedures attempts to replicate and even occasionally mimetizes the features traditionally ascribed to the competing practice.
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4La radicalización heideggeriana del método fenomenológicoConvivium: revista de filosofía 13 60-90. 2000.Contends that Heideggerian “fundamental ontology” and Husserlian phenomenology, while linked by methodological affinities (hermeneutics would be the operational correlative to phenomenology’s transcendental embrace), are thematically incongruent. It also holds that the self-display of Being clashes with the un-methodical dimension assigned to immediacy by the phenomenological tradition. Through reshaping Husserl’s presentialist transcendentalism, Heidegger cast anew the methodology grounded upon…Read more
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13Riassunto: L'istituzione al bivioIn Rodrigo Lawlor Carbone (ed.), Chiasmi International, . pp. 246-247. 2009.The shortcomings of Merleau-Ponty’s crucial concept of “institution” led him into a turning point where the way out he selected was actually much inferior, as regards the prospects of fulfillment that were latent in his thought, to the alternative path he did not take.
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15Institution at the CrossroadsIn Pierre Rodrigo Federico Leoni Leonard Lawlor Mauro Carbone (ed.), Chiasmi International, Vrin. pp. 201-244. 2009.The shortcomings of Merleau-Ponty’s crucial concept of “institution” led him into a turning point where the way out he selected was actually much inferior, as regards the prospects of fulfillment that were latent in his thought, to the alternative path he did not take.
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15Merleau-Ponty y las orientaciones fenomenológicas en historiografía del pensamientoInvestigaciones Fenomenológicas 1 17. 2008.Contends that Merleau-Ponty’s doctrine of the “philosophical shadow” that went together with all eminent doctrines of the past and which he discloses as their chief (though concealed) operative resource and the main cause of their ground-breaking viewpoints, both synthesizes and transcends all precedent phenomenological attempts (Heidegger’s and Fink’s prominent among them) to solve the theoretical and methodological puzzles uncovered by philosophical historiography.
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37De los “límites de la fenomenología” a la “embriología del ser”. RESEÑA de: Bech, Josep María. Merleau-Ponty : Una aproximación a su pensamiento. Barcelona : Anthropos, 2005 (review)Investigaciones Fenomenológicas 4 243. 2005.
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217Résumé: L'institution au carrefourIn Rodrigo Lawlor Carbone (ed.), Chiasmi International, . pp. 245-246. 2009.The shortcomings of Merleau-Ponty’s crucial concept of “institution” led him into a turning point where the way out he selected was actually much inferior, as regards the prospects of fulfillment that were latent in his thought, to the alternative path he did not take.
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6Institution at the Crossroads: Ontological Extension or Corporeal Restatement?Chiasmi International 11 201-244. 2009.
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178Penser le visuel, visualiser la pensée. Le modèle perceptif et la politique de la visionChiasmi International 14 295-321. 2012.Thinking the Visual, Visualizing the Thought. A perceptual and Political Model of VisionMerleau-Ponty’s program of perceptivizing thought has depoliticizing effects that, though he does not recognize them, undermine his understanding of politics. These anti-political consequences, moreover, bring out the internal difficulties of his anti-intellectualist starting point. There are three areas in which Merleau-Ponty gave a thorough application, though with unequal success, of his perception-based m…Read more
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1El pensamiento de la no-coincidenciaConvivium: revista de filosofía 16 57-94. 2003.Argues that Merleau-Ponty’s thought grounds itself on “non-coincidence” or, as he puts it, on “divergence or écart”, “non-transparence” or “non-adequacy”, since neither perception nor knowledge, in his view, actually conveys the things perceived or known. Reality comes up drenched in transcendence, and likewise thought has to span the “uncanny distance” that severs the subject from itself and every object from its own identity. Thus appear groundless an array of received views on the “reversibil…Read more
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Temporalidad finita y diferencia ontológicaConvivium: revista de filosofía 11 102-127. 1998.Attempts to elucidate the tension between the finitist compromise and the ontological scaffolding in Heidegger’s early thought, while acknowledging that this twofold commitment entails a methodology of a bafflingly circular character. This pessimistic claim appears reinforced by the evidence that the grounding of “Being” upon “the beings” cannot exclude the “paradoxical grounding of Being” by “the beings” themselves.
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