Richard Rorty found Friedrich Nietzsche’s critique of epistemology (perspectivism) to be a helpful tool in getting us to stop thinking of knowledge as something we find, and instead as something that we create. He also found perspectivism to be a helpful tool in that of the private sphere, of private self-creation. The Nietzsche that provides perspectivism is “The Good Nietzsche”. Rorty, however, conceived of Nietzsche’s ideas as being absolutely useless when it comes to politics, along with his ideas regarding morality, the Will to Power, and the Übermensch. These are the ideas of “The Bad Nietzsche”. Rorty’s actual usage of Nietzsche’s ideas, however, defies such easy, self-defined categorization, because these ideas extend outside of their spheres into the realm of politics in Rorty’s own writings. Most traditional analyses of the relationship between Nietzsche and Rorty as it regards politics tend to focus on Nietzsche. By focusing on Rorty’s appropriation of Nietzsche, through looking at his extensive writings and interviews, a more subtle, and complex relationship between Nietzsche’s various ideas and Rorty’s politics is seen to exist.

[pt] A dissertação propõe explorar a fertilidade do pensamento perspectivista para refletir sobre modos de experimentação e produção de escritas contemporâneas e, num sentido mais amplo, arte. Para tanto, o presente estudo concentra-se em procedimentos que ocorrem nestas manifestações os quais podemos chamar de exercícios perspectivistas – experimentos artísticos que mobilizam temas caros ao perspectivismo de todos os matizes, na atenção que estes costumam dar a devires entre natureza e cultura, humano e não humano, sujeito e objeto, matéria e sentido e tantos outros. A reflexão proposta concentra-se na obra de Nuno Ramos – escritor e artista visual. Aqui, seus trabalhos são abordados como escritas contemporâneas do quase. A noção de quasidade é uma categoria perspectivista crucial para o pensamento filosófico da multiplicidade e dos devires (em especial, Nietzsche e Deleuze). Tais filosofias informam, em larga medida, a antropologia de Eduardo Viveiros de Castro em suas reflexões sobre a vida e o pensamento dos povos ameríndios, reflexões que esta pesquisa busca também incorporar. A partir do território descrito e por meio de uma prática ensaística, tomam-se como ocasiões especialmente favoráveis para a investigação um livro (Junco) e uma instalação (Monólogo para um cachorro morto). Tais fazeres artísticos mostram que escritas do quase são persistentemente buscadas por meio das relações entre linguagem, arte, corpo, pensamento e ação. Tais procedimentos são estudados como processos que potencializam pontos de vista, multiplicidades e devires. A dissertação é composta de capítulos autônomos, porém complementares, e permite diferentes percursos de leitura. / [en] This dissertation sets out to explore the fruitfulness of perspectivism in reflecting about ways of experimentation and production in the expanded field of literature and art today. In order to do so, it focuses on some procedures that, recurring in these contemporary manifestations, might be called perspectivist exercises – artistic experiments that mobilize themes so dear to perspectivisms of all hues, in their attention to becomings between nature and culture, human and not human, subject and object, matter and sense, and many others. The study concentrates on the works of writer and visual artist Nuno Ramos, addressed here as instances of contemporary writings of quasi. The notion of quasi-ness is a crucial perspectival category to the philosophical thought of multiplicity and becomings (Nietzsche and Deleuze). Such philosophies largely inform Eduardo Viveiros de Castro s anthropology as found in his works on Amerindian people s lives and minds, a body of reflections that this study also seeks to incorporate. From the described territory and through an essayistic practice, this dissertation takes the installation Monólogo para um cachorro morto and the book Junco as specially favorable occasions for reflection. Such artistic doings show that a writing of quasi is persistently sought by the exploration of relations between language, art, body, thought and action. These procedures are studied as processes that potentiate perspectives, multiplicities and becomings. The autonomous, though complementary chapters, of the dissertation allow for multiple directions and sequences of reading.

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Apesar de as Companhias paulistanas em epígrafe apresentarem práxis com características próprias, verificou-se um conjunto de proposições e procedimentos comuns na criação de espetáculos e, também, em uma série de atividades correlatas, como a publicação de material reflexivo, a realização de debates, palestras e cursos. A partir de tal verificação, propõe-se a existência, na cidade de São Paulo, nesta segunda década do século XXI, de forma de produção determinada historicamente. Isto é, a mobilização e a criação de um conjunto de parâmetros práxicos que está na base de realização teatral de caráter eminentemente épico, premida por pressupostos colaborativos de criação. Forma que, também, prevê a hierarquização horizontal nas relações em companhias e grupos teatrais. Tal conjunto de parâmetros constitui-se em orientação metodológica para uma significativa parcela da produção teatral na cidade, atinente ao sujeito histórico teatro de grupo. Coligindo determinada bibliografia e observação práxica, indica-se ponto de inflexão originário de tal forma de produção: os meados de 1970, em contexto da luta contra a ditadura civil-militar então vigente no Brasil. Coletivos teatrais surgidos à época, em comunhão com outros já em existência, ao priorizarem pressupostos colaborativos de criação e hierarquização horizontal, inseriram-se em amplo escopo de transformações na sociedade brasileira no período e, assim, redimensionaram a perspectiva social da produção teatral. Para se analisar os meandros de tal forma de produção, são utilizados preceitos de Fayga Ostrower (2013), principalmente no que diz respeito à associação direta entre criação e formalização. As teses de Ostrower são apresentadas em cotejamento, principalmente, às de Mikhail Bakhtin (1987, 2010) acerca de certa onipresença de elementos histórico-sociais em qualquer processo criativo. No sentido de observar e refletir dialeticamente sobre práticas teatrais (objetos e sujeitos desta pesquisa), apropria-se então de determinadas proposições. Teses, prioritariamente, de Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (2002), Darcy Ribeiro (2015), Antonio Candido (1970) e Roberto DaMatta (1997), que são consideradas para associar certas idiossincrasias, da referida forma, com alguns preceitos de sociedades ameríndias e, outros, fundantes do nomeado povo brasileiro. Destacando-se: o perspectivismo, a valorização da alteridade, a miscigenação e a malandragem. / This piece of work is consolidated through the observation, in a procedure close to participatory research, of the procedures adopted by the theatre groups Cia. Livre and Cia. Teatro Balagan, to create the plays Maria que viu Jonas, ou a força da imaginação (2015) and Cabras - Cabeças que voam, cabeças que rolam (2016). Despite of having their own praxis and owning specific characteristics, both São Paulo theatre groups mentioned above presented an ensemble of same propositions and procedures not only to create a performance, but also to organize other activities related to the plays, such as publicising reflective material, the organization of debates, lectures and courses. Once verified the characteristics previously mentioned, it is proposed the existence of the historically determined form of production in the city of São Paulo during the second decade of the XXI century. This means the mobilization and the creation of an ensemble of praxis parameters which are the basis to create epical theatrical performances urged by assumed collaborative creation. This approach to a theatrical production also previews the horizontal hierarchy in theatre groups relationships. These parameters determine a methodological guidance to a significant part of the theatrical production in town, concerning the historical entity: theatre group. Collecting specific bibliography and observation under adopted praxis, we determine the point of inflection originated from this form of production: the early 1970’s, under the scenario of civil-military dictatorship in force in Brazil. Theatrical collectives that emerged at the time, in communion with others that already existed, prioritizing collaborative creation presuppositions and horizontal hierarchization, became part of a broad scope of transformations in Brazilian society in the period and, thus, re-dimensioned the social perspective of theatrical production. In order to analyse the intricacies of this production method, Fayga Ostrower (2013) precepts are applied, mainly in what concerns the direct association between creation and formalization. Ostrower’s theses are presented in comparison to Mikhail Bakhtin’s (1987, 2010) about the omnipresence of basic historical-social elements in any creative process. In order to dialectically observe and portray the theatrical procedures (objects and subjects of this research), we take over some propositions. Theses, mainly by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (2002), Darcy Ribeiro (2015), Antonio Candido (1970), and Roberto DaMatta (1997) are considered to associate some idiosyncrasies, according to the referred format, with some precepts of Amerindian societies, and others, roots of Brazilian people. Enphasizing: the perspectivism, the appreciation of contrast, the miscegenation and the malice.

Partimos de um contexto tecnológico-comunicativo marcado, especialmente, pela ubiquidade, pela pervasividade, pela comunicação das coisas (LEMOS), por eventos e existências que transcorrem em metaterritorialidades informativas (DI FELICE) e pela enorme quantidade de dados gerados por tecnologias móveis, tais como smartphones, sensores, e etiquetas RFID. Tal situação tecnológica aponta para a possibilidade sempre presente de qualquer entidade, humana ou não (geleiras, animais, árvores, alimentos, embalagens etc.), assumir a qualidade informativo-digital, ou a metalinguagem do código, experienciar perspectivas outras e entrar em agenciamentos que a transformam ontologicamente. Essa \"ecologia digital\", ao trazer à tona a constituição reticular dos seres e ambientes, tornando transponíveis as fronteiras e experienciáveis as diferenças, inaugura uma condição habitativa atópica (DI FELICE) que reúne corpos, tecnologias, naturezas em uma relação simbiótica e dinâmica. Esses processos inéditos engendrados pelas novas tecnologias de comunicação e informação nos impõem a necessidade de buscar alternativas teóricas e conceituais aos dualismos derivados da Grande Divisão (LATOUR) entre Natureza e Sociedade que fundou o pensamento moderno ocidental e fundamentou as próprias concepções predominantes no campo científico da comunicação. O contexto latino-americano em que esta pesquisa se insere representa uma oportunidade para o estabelecimento de \"alianças perturbadoras\" (STENGERS) com práticas não-científicas e pensamentos não (somente) europeus, entre os quais destacamos o xamanismo e o perspectivismo ameríndio (VIVEIROS DE CASTRO), que, além de se mostrarem reticulares e ecológicos em sua constituição, engendrando desde sempre outros tipos de relação (não-instrumentais e nem dialógicas ou separatistas) com não-humanos, considerados todos sujeitos potenciais e parte de seu \"social\", revelam também sua dimensão comunicativa quando seus próprios praticantes, os xamãs, comparam-se às tecnologias comunicativas dos \"brancos\" (FERREIRA). Desse encontro, apresentamos uma possível ideia xamânica de redes comunicativas que, ao ultrapassar a dimensão somente humana, hermenêutica e a interação dialógica e conceber a relação com a terra-floresta (ALBERT e KOPENAWA) e suas agências emaranhadas a partir de uma \"anarquia ontológica\" (VIVEIROS DE CASTRO), do trânsito e da conexão entre mundos, torna-se uma chave conceitual fértil para pensar a comunicação digital e suas potencialidades. / We start from a technological communicative context marked especially by ubiquity, pervasiveness, the communication of things (LEMOS), events and beings that flow in information metaterritorialidades (DI FELICE) and by a huge amount of data generated by mobile technologies such as smartphones, sensors, and RFID tags. Such technological situation points to the ever-present possibility of any entity, human or not (glaciers, animals, trees, food, packaging, etc..), take digital-informative qualities, or meta code, experience other perspectives and enter into assemblages that transform them ontologically. This \"digital ecology\", bringing up the reticular formation of beings and environments, making transposable borders and diferences graspable, inaugurates an \"atopic dwelling condition\" (DI FELICE) which brings together bodies, technologies, still in a symbiotic and dynamic relationship. These novel processes engendered by new communication and information technologies impose on us the need to seek theoretical and conceptual alternatives for the dualisms derived from Great Divide (LATOUR) between Nature and Society, which founded the Modern Western thought and grounded the predominant conceptions in the scientific field of communication. The Latin American context in which this research is part represents an opportunity to establish not (only) European \"disturbing alliances\" (STENGERS) with non-scientific practices and thoughts, among which include Shamanism and Amerindian Perspectivism (VIVEIROS DE CASTRO), which , showed to reticular and ecological in its constitution, always engendering other types of relationship (or non-instrumental and dialogical or separatists) with nonhumans, considering all potential subjects, and part of his \"social\" also reveal their size communicative when their own practitioners, shamans, we compare the communication technologies of the \"whites\" (FERREIRA). From this contact, we present a possible shamanic idea of communicative networks, which, including not only the human dimension, the hermeneutics and the dialogical interaction, and understanding the relationship with the forest-land (ALBERT and KOPENAWA) and its entangled agents from an \"ontological anarchy\" (VIVEIROS DE CASTRO), a transit and a conection between worlds, becomes a fertile key concept to think digital communication and its potential

Orientador: Oswaldo Giacoia Junior / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-25T17:53:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DallaVecchia_RicardoBazilio_D.pdf: 2103536 bytes, checksum: 211bac2b002da20f4174a5a8a6b9df1d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Esta tese de doutoramento tem por escopo investigar o tema do perspectivismo (Perspektivismus) na filosofia de F. W. Nietzsche (1844-1900). A despeito da contingência e mesmo da escassez no que concerne ao emprego de termos específicos e ao desenvolvimento efetivo do tema, que nos servirá como ponto de partida, mostraremos que desde os seus primeiros apontamentos Nietzsche recorre a uma série de estratégias, procedimentos, metáforas e analogias de cunho perspectivista, mas que somente no período maduro, abalizado pelos acontecimentos da morte de Deus e da vontade de poder, passam a engendrar ou ao menos a rotular uma modalidade de pensamento performático, que se serve da alternância de vista para denunciar a sedução linguístico-moral do pensamento metafísico. A partir dessa hipótese, e tendo como contraponto algumas de suas principais linhas de interpretação, discutiremos o status da proposição filosófica do perspectivismo, defendendo que por sua natureza "flutuante", coalescente à vontade de poder, o perspectivismo não pode constituir-se como uma teoria, sendo necessário considerá-lo à luz da questão da compreensibilidade da própria filosofia de Nietzsche / Abstract: This thesis aims to investigate the term Perspectivism (Perspektivismus) coined by Friedrich Nietzsche philosophy (1844-1900). Taking into account that there is a dearth of accurate terms and effective development of this theme in the current literature, this thesis demonstrates that Nietzsche had explored through a series of metaphors, linguistic strategies and even analogies the idea of Perspectivism since his initial studies. Nevertheless, it is just during his mature philosophy ¿ after claiming the death of God and developing his theory of will to power ¿ that Nietzsche starts in fact drawing the idea of performativity. Based on the argument that knowledge is contingent and conditional this idea proposes to denounce the linguistic-moral seduction presents in metaphysics. Considering such hypothesis, this thesis explores the philosophical term Perspectivism. Therefore, I argue that, due to its "floating" nature which coalesces into The Willl to Power, the Perspectivism cannot be understood as a theory by itself. Rather, it is necessary to consider it through the comprehensibility of the entire philosophy of Nietzsche / Doutorado / Filosofia / Doutor em Filosofia

Friedrich Nietzsche’s 1874 essay "On the Use and Disadvantage of History for Life" (HL) presents ideas on how the past ought to be appropriated and how history ought to be written. His 1887 book "On the Genealogy of Morality" (GM) presents an account of the historical development of European morality. Given that Nietzsche appropriates the past through writing in GM, the question arises: does GM put into practice Nietzsche’s earlier ideas from HL concerning how the past ought to be appropriated through the writing of history? I argue that GM does indeed apply some of Nietzsche’s key ideas from HL. In particular, GM remains consistent with HL insofar as it appropriates the past unhistorically, makes use of the monumental and critical modes of history, and appropriates the past in a way that encourages the flourishing of an elite kind of human being. However, Nietzsche’s manner of appropriating the past in GM also diverges from what he espouses in HL. Whereas in HL he emphasizes the usefulness and desirability of forgetting and distorting the past, in GM he exhibits a more notable concern with knowing the truth about the past. I show that this difference in approach is due to the significant change that Nietzsche’s epistemology underwent between the writing of HL and the writing of GM. This difference in approach notwithstanding, the great virtue of illuminating GM through the lens of HL is that it allows us to see more clearly how a lack of concern with truth and knowledge plays a positive role in Nietzsche’s writing of the past in GM. It also helps us to understand why he appropriates the past the way that he does in GM. Just as in HL Nietzsche thought that the past ought to be appropriated in a way that encourages the activity of genius, his writing of the history of European morality in GM is undertaken with the intent to encourage the occurrence and activity of a select kind of human being, a kind of human being that Nietzsche values above all else.

[pt] Esta tese explora a potência da noção de quase-acontecimento no campo dos estudos literários. Buscando tal noção na esfera do perspectivismo ameríndio, soma-se a investigações contemporâneas que, comprometidas com o imperativo de não presumir vantagem epistemológica nos encontros com os povos indígenas, vêm se interessando em pensar a experiência artística sob o impacto desses encontros. No universo ameríndio, o quase acontecer é um evento recorrentemente associado ao trânsito ontológico (viagens aos mundos dos mortos, dos espíritos, dos animais, das coisas etc.), sendo a quasidade um vetor crucial em narrativas míticas e práticas xamânicas. Em contraste com estados de fusão ou anulação, a experiência com a quasidade só pode se manifestar em termos suspensivos. A disposição para habitar, assim em suspensão, zonas de vizinhança entre mundos humanos e não humanos já foi muitas vezes evocada e convocada em conexão com a experiência artística em contextos ditos ocidentais: tomando parte nesse movimento, as reflexões de Deleuze e Guattari são, de modo geral, uma influência importante nos materiais etnofilosóficos aqui em foco, notadamente, os trabalhos de Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Tania Stolze Lima e Manuela Carneiro da Cunha. Dois aspectos do pensamento da dupla de filósofos franceses importam em especial para este estudo: por um lado, mais teórico, está a insistência no devir feiticeiro do artista; e, por outro lado, mais metodológico, está o caminho que abrem ao construir seu pensamento por meio da invenção de séries heterogêneas de intercessores. Compondo-se de um conjunto eclético de materiais poéticos capazes de perturbar certo modo ocidental de conceber a imaginação, esta tese dedica-se a investigar vínculos possíveis entre imaginação poética e quase acontecimento. Apresentando-se e discutindo-se modos singulares com que poéticas ameríndias e ocidentais mobilizam o quase acontecer, mostra-se que o diálogo com práticas interligadas da vida ameríndia abre caminhos férteis para (re)pensar e (re)viver a potência do corpo na imaginação e os vínculos entre práticas teórico-críticas e práticas artísticas. A tese reflete em sua própria escritura este último ponto: os exercícios de leitura aqui realizados fazem transbordar entre si minhas atividades como pesquisadora e como escritora. Por este viés e num recorte que bastará aos interesses deste estudo, tais exercícios respondem à natureza paradoxal das imagens xapiri na narrativa xamânica de David Kopenawa em A queda do céu; à atmosfera mítico-ritualística de contato dos Ikpeng e dos Yanomami com a morte; e ao desordenamento de corpos que infestam o mito Pu iito – práticas e poéticas ameríndias que ponho em fricção com as seguintes experiências artísticas ocidentais: os livros O imitador de vozes, de Thomas Bernhard e Amada, de Toni Morrison; o poema Qvasi , de Edimilson de Almeida Pereira; e o conto O sofredor do ver , de Maura Lopes Cançado. / [en] This thesis explores the potency of the notion of the quasi-event in the field of literary studies. By locating this notion within the sphere of Amerindian perspectivism, it makes use of contemporary investigations that, committed to the imperative of not assuming an epistemological advantage in encounters with indigenous peoples, have been interested in considering the artistic experience under the impact of these encounters. In the Amerindian universe, a quasi-event-taken is an event recurrently associated with ontological transit (i.e., trips to the worlds of the dead, spirits, animals, things etc.), in which quasidade is a crucial vector in mythical narratives and shamanic practices. In contrast to states of fusion and annulment, this experience with quasidade can only manifest itself in suspensive terms. The willingness to inhabit (thus in suspension) neighboring zones between human and non-human worlds has often been evoked and summoned in connection with the artistic experience in so-called Western contexts: taking part in such movement, the reflections of Deleuze and Guattari are, in general, important influences on the ethnophilosophical materials in focus, most notably the works of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Tania Stolze Lima and Manuela Carneiro da Cunha. Moreover, two aspects of the French philosophers thinking are especially relevant to this study: on the one hand, a more theoretical approach is the insistence on the becoming sorcerer of the artist; and, on the other hand, more methodological, is the path they open when constructing their thinking through the invention of a heterogeneous series of intercessors. Composed of an eclectic set of poetic materials capable of disturbing a certain Western way of conceiving the imagination, this thesis investigates possible links between poetic imagination and quasi-event . Hence, introducing and discussing the unique ways in which Amerindian and Western poetics mobilize quasi-event-taken, it is shown that the dialogue with interconnected practices of Amerindian life clears the path for alternative ways to (re)think and (re)live the potency of the body in the imagination, as well as the links between theoretical-critical and artistic practices. This last matter is reflected in this work s writing process: the reading exercises carried out here make my activities as a researcher and as a writer to overflow with each other. By this bias and in a cut-off that will be enough for the interests of this study, such exercises respond to the paradoxical nature of xapiri images in David Kopenawa s shamanic narrative in A queda do céu; the mythical-ritualistic atmosphere of Ikpeng and Yanomami contact with death; and the disorder of bodies that infest the myth Pu iito – Amerindian practices and poetics that I put in friction with the following Western artistic experiences: the books O Imitador de Vozes, by Thomas Bernhard and Amada, by Toni Morrison; the poem Qvasi , by Edimilson de Almeida Pereira; and the short story O sofredor do ver , by Maura Lopes Cançado.

[pt] Este trabalho se constitui como um exercício tradutório especulativo que se realiza entre os universos conceituais do povo Araweté (povo Tupi-Guarani) e da cosmologia contemporânea, tal como apresentados pelo antropólogo Eduardo Viveiros de Castro e pelo cosmólogo Mario Novello, respectivamente. Parte-se, de um lado, da reivindicação fundamental que a cosmologia contemporânea faz de pensar a si própria através da recuperação da distinção entre as propriedades locais e globais do cosmos, levando à necessidade de um agenciamento da relação entre elas; e, de outro, da maneira como a antropologia contemporânea se pensa como um procedimento de tradução entre universos de pensamento que se dá pela explicitação das diferenças existentes entre eles, tal como proposto por Viveiros de Castro. Assim orientada, a pesquisa busca identificar na interpretação feita por Viveiros de Castro dos Araweté aquilo que poderia ser reconhecido como local e global, para então responder à seguinte questão: que efeitos seriam produzidos no conceito de cosmologia, tal como pensado desde o ponto de vista crítico de Novello, quando concebido desde o ponto de vista Araweté, produzido por tal interpretação? Com intenção de fazer jus àquilo que a antropologia hoje coloca como ação fundamental para si enquanto prática, levar a sério o pensamento do outro, este trabalho propõe como resultado principal uma imagem de cosmologia que, ao invés de se pensar através da necessidade de encontrar a solidariedade máxima entre diferentes aspectos de um mesmo mundo (uma forma de produzir coerência entre aspectos locais e globais), seria aquilo que só se constitui quando se relacionam universos ontológicos distintos a partir de um modelo de relação que, para garantir a diferença existente entre esses mundos, precisa ser de transformação. Pensada dessa maneira, a cosmologia, ao invés de oferecer uma imagem de mundo como sendo aquilo que se constitui a partir do que há de comum entre os diferentes pontos de vista que o compõem, propõe, de outra maneira, um mundo que só existe quando universos distintos podem se relacionar, de forma tal que a diferença existente entre eles seja total. / [en] This work is constituted as a speculative translational exercise conducted between the conceptual universe of the (Tupi-Guarani) Araweté people and contemporary cosmology, as presented by the anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and the cosmologist Mario Novello, respectively. The starting point for this work lies, first, in the fundamental claims made by contemporary cosmology as it recovers a distinction between local and global cosmological properties, leading to an assemblage of the relation between them. Second, it also begins withcontemporary anthropology s understanding of itself as a procedure for translating between conceptual worlds by making the differences between them explicit, as proposed by Viveiros de Castro. In this way, and through Viveiros de Castro s interpretation of Araweté cosmology, this research seeks to identify what could be taken as their views on the local and the global, in order to respond to the following question: what effects are produced on the concept of cosmology,critically defined by Novello, when conceived through the Araweté point of view, as interpreted by Viveiros de Castro? With the aim of doing justice to the practice that contemporary anthropology identifies as fundamental for itself, taking seriously other ways of thinking, this dissertation proposes that a primary result is an image of cosmology that – rather than seeking maximum solidarity between the different aspects of a single world (which is one way of producing coherence between local and global aspects) – could only be constituted when different ontological universes are placed in relation to each other. This requires a relational model that needs to be transformational to guarantee the differences between those worlds. Thought about in this way, instead of offering an image of one world as constituted through what is common between different points of view, cosmologycould propose, in another way, a world that only exists when distinct universes engage each other through total difference.

Scénarios d’aveuglement dans la littérature d’Orhan Pamuk, d’Ernesto Sábato, et de José Saramago analyse trois œuvres importantes de trois auteurs contemporains : Mon nom est Rouge d’Orhan Pamuk ; « Rapport sur les aveugles » du roman Héros et tombes d’Ernesto Sábato ; et L’aveuglement de José Saramago. Malgré leurs différences, ces romans ont des points communs évidents, synthétisés dans la figure de l’aveuglement. Cette figure signale l’avènement, dans les textes, d’un régime de connaissance alternatif, centré moins sur le primat de la raison et du visuel que sur une nouvelle capacité cognitive, basée sur une logique spéciale du destin. L’aveuglement s’ouvre également sur une nouvelle compréhension de l’histoire, grâce à une capacité du récit de fiction qui passe par le point de fuite de la cécité. Pour Pamuk, l’aveuglement est le couronnement paradoxal d’une vision du monde, gravement mise en crise à la fin du XVIe siècle par le perspectivisme et le réalisme de la Renaissance, la voie d’entrée vers un monde imaginal qui n’est plus accessible à l’imaginaire occidental. Pour Sábato, il représente la variante renversée d’une quête de l’absolu qui passe par les antres de l’inceste, de l’enfer et du crime, tandis que le monde décrit par Saramago est un monde qui sombre sur la pente de la déchéance, en suivant une logique implacable. Il est l’équivalent de plusieurs formes de cécité qui menacent le monde contemporain, comme le fondamentalisme religieux, l’homogénéité préconisée par la société de masse, l’exclusion raciale, l’oppression idéologique. La thèse se divise en trois parties, La violente beauté du monde, Un mythe hérétique de la caverne et Une épidémie à cause inconnue, chacune d’entre elles analysant l’œuvre d’un auteur, mais établissant également des liens avec les autres chapitres. L’approche adoptée est interdisciplinaire, un croisement entre études littéraires, philosophie et histoire de l’art. Dans leur quête de nouveaux concepts et de nouvelles formes de pensée qui s’écartent du modèle rationnel dominant de la modernité, les trois auteurs partent de la présupposition que regarder les choses n’est pas du tout l’équivalent de voir les choses. Ils tentent d’articuler une logique du voir qui ressemble plutôt à la vision et à la clairvoyance qu’à la conformité logique. La figure de l’aveuglement sert de tremplin vers le monde imaginal (Pamuk), la pensée magique (Sábato) et la vision dystopique (Saramago) – des espaces ontologiquement différents où les auteurs mènent leurs attaques contre la rationnalité à tout prix. C’est précisément ces espaces que nous avons choisi d’explorer dans les trois romans. Nous soutenons également que ces trois textes proposent un nouveau régime de « connaissance » qui met en question les règles de pensée héritées de la Renaissance et surtout des Lumières, qui constituent un discours dominant dans la culture visuelle et philosophique moderne. / Blindness in the Literature of Orhan Pamuk, Ernesto Sábato, José Saramago examines three important texts by three well-known contemporary authors: My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk; the chapter « Report on the Blind » from the novel On Heroes and Tombs by Ernesto Sábato; and Blindness by José Saramago. The trope of blindness is a common theme in these novels, despite their significant differences. Blindness introduces an alternative regime of knowledge, centered less on the primacy of the rational and the visual than on a new cognitive capacity, grounded in a specific logic of destiny. It proposes new understandings of history, due to a fictionalizing capacity, which passes through the fault lines of blindness. For Pamuk, blindness represents the paradoxical culmination of a traditional, Islamic world view, which was challenged in the 16th century by the perspectivism and the realism of Renaissance. This conception is regarded as the royal road to an imaginal world that remains inaccessible to the western imaginary. In Sábato’s novel, blindness prompts the reversed version of a quest for absolute, which passes through incest, hell and crime. In the dystopic world depicted by Saramago, this trope is symptomatic of a continuous decay, which follows an implacable logic. It also points to the many forms of blindness that threaten the contemporary world, such as religious fundamentalism, the leveling produced by mass culture and mass society, racial exclusion, ideological oppression. The thesis is divided in three chapters: The Violent Beauty of the World, A Heretical Myth of the Cave and An Epidemic with an Unknown Reason. Each chapter examines one of the three novels, but connections and cross-links among the individual chapters are also established. My investigation provides an interdisciplinary approach, which relies on paradigms from literary studies, philosophy and art history. All three authors examined in the dissertation start from the assumption that looking is not equivalent to seeing. Their texts attempt to formulate a logic of seeing indebted to vision rather than to logical accuracy. The figure of blindness serves as a springboard towards the imaginal world (Pamuk), magical thought (Sábato) and dystopia (Saramago) – ontologically different spaces where the authors counter rationality with new modes of vision. The dissertation explores the articulation of these spaces in the three novels. It argues that these texts on blindness propose a regime of « knowledge » that challenges the dominant discourses on vision, rationality, and the mind – the legacy of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment – in modern visual culture and modern philosophy.

Scénarios d’aveuglement dans la littérature d’Orhan Pamuk, d’Ernesto Sábato, et de José Saramago analyse trois œuvres importantes de trois auteurs contemporains : Mon nom est Rouge d’Orhan Pamuk ; « Rapport sur les aveugles » du roman Héros et tombes d’Ernesto Sábato ; et L’aveuglement de José Saramago. Malgré leurs différences, ces romans ont des points communs évidents, synthétisés dans la figure de l’aveuglement. Cette figure signale l’avènement, dans les textes, d’un régime de connaissance alternatif, centré moins sur le primat de la raison et du visuel que sur une nouvelle capacité cognitive, basée sur une logique spéciale du destin. L’aveuglement s’ouvre également sur une nouvelle compréhension de l’histoire, grâce à une capacité du récit de fiction qui passe par le point de fuite de la cécité. Pour Pamuk, l’aveuglement est le couronnement paradoxal d’une vision du monde, gravement mise en crise à la fin du XVIe siècle par le perspectivisme et le réalisme de la Renaissance, la voie d’entrée vers un monde imaginal qui n’est plus accessible à l’imaginaire occidental. Pour Sábato, il représente la variante renversée d’une quête de l’absolu qui passe par les antres de l’inceste, de l’enfer et du crime, tandis que le monde décrit par Saramago est un monde qui sombre sur la pente de la déchéance, en suivant une logique implacable. Il est l’équivalent de plusieurs formes de cécité qui menacent le monde contemporain, comme le fondamentalisme religieux, l’homogénéité préconisée par la société de masse, l’exclusion raciale, l’oppression idéologique. La thèse se divise en trois parties, La violente beauté du monde, Un mythe hérétique de la caverne et Une épidémie à cause inconnue, chacune d’entre elles analysant l’œuvre d’un auteur, mais établissant également des liens avec les autres chapitres. L’approche adoptée est interdisciplinaire, un croisement entre études littéraires, philosophie et histoire de l’art. Dans leur quête de nouveaux concepts et de nouvelles formes de pensée qui s’écartent du modèle rationnel dominant de la modernité, les trois auteurs partent de la présupposition que regarder les choses n’est pas du tout l’équivalent de voir les choses. Ils tentent d’articuler une logique du voir qui ressemble plutôt à la vision et à la clairvoyance qu’à la conformité logique. La figure de l’aveuglement sert de tremplin vers le monde imaginal (Pamuk), la pensée magique (Sábato) et la vision dystopique (Saramago) – des espaces ontologiquement différents où les auteurs mènent leurs attaques contre la rationnalité à tout prix. C’est précisément ces espaces que nous avons choisi d’explorer dans les trois romans. Nous soutenons également que ces trois textes proposent un nouveau régime de « connaissance » qui met en question les règles de pensée héritées de la Renaissance et surtout des Lumières, qui constituent un discours dominant dans la culture visuelle et philosophique moderne. / Blindness in the Literature of Orhan Pamuk, Ernesto Sábato, José Saramago examines three important texts by three well-known contemporary authors: My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk; the chapter « Report on the Blind » from the novel On Heroes and Tombs by Ernesto Sábato; and Blindness by José Saramago. The trope of blindness is a common theme in these novels, despite their significant differences. Blindness introduces an alternative regime of knowledge, centered less on the primacy of the rational and the visual than on a new cognitive capacity, grounded in a specific logic of destiny. It proposes new understandings of history, due to a fictionalizing capacity, which passes through the fault lines of blindness. For Pamuk, blindness represents the paradoxical culmination of a traditional, Islamic world view, which was challenged in the 16th century by the perspectivism and the realism of Renaissance. This conception is regarded as the royal road to an imaginal world that remains inaccessible to the western imaginary. In Sábato’s novel, blindness prompts the reversed version of a quest for absolute, which passes through incest, hell and crime. In the dystopic world depicted by Saramago, this trope is symptomatic of a continuous decay, which follows an implacable logic. It also points to the many forms of blindness that threaten the contemporary world, such as religious fundamentalism, the leveling produced by mass culture and mass society, racial exclusion, ideological oppression. The thesis is divided in three chapters: The Violent Beauty of the World, A Heretical Myth of the Cave and An Epidemic with an Unknown Reason. Each chapter examines one of the three novels, but connections and cross-links among the individual chapters are also established. My investigation provides an interdisciplinary approach, which relies on paradigms from literary studies, philosophy and art history. All three authors examined in the dissertation start from the assumption that looking is not equivalent to seeing. Their texts attempt to formulate a logic of seeing indebted to vision rather than to logical accuracy. The figure of blindness serves as a springboard towards the imaginal world (Pamuk), magical thought (Sábato) and dystopia (Saramago) – ontologically different spaces where the authors counter rationality with new modes of vision. The dissertation explores the articulation of these spaces in the three novels. It argues that these texts on blindness propose a regime of « knowledge » that challenges the dominant discourses on vision, rationality, and the mind – the legacy of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment – in modern visual culture and modern philosophy.