Cobbling the "Bêtise" in J.D.
Keywords:
Bêtise, bestiality, the proper to man, death, radical evil
Abstract
This article, scattered with cobbles and cobbled with different languages, revolves around the bêtise [a French term that usually translates as “stupidity,” “nonsense,” etc.] in philosophy. Starting from the reading of a series of texts by Derrida, the author focuses, among other issues, on what he calls “two loose ends” of the reflection upon the bêtise: 1) the bêtise that consists in willing to conclude once and for all in an attempt to appropriate, which is in its turn proper to philosophy, and therefore proper to that rational animal that man is; and 2) the relationship that the bêtise maintains with bestiality, just as with cruelty and evil.Downloads
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Rodríguez Gómez F. (2012). Cobbling the "Bêtise" in J.D. Escritura e Imagen, Extra, 325-339. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ESIM.2011.37742
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