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PORTUGUESE STUDIES REVIEW 26.1 2018 247-271
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON LUSO-TROPICALISM NOVAS PERSPETIVAS SOBRE O LUSO-TROPICALISMO SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS MICHEL CAHEN AND PATRÍCIA FERRAZ DE MATOS
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON LUSO-TROPICALISM NOVAS PERSPETIVAS SOBRE O LUSO-TROPICALISMO SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS MICHEL CAHEN AND PATRÍCIA FERRAZ DE MATOS
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In Carta ao Futuro (Letter to the Future) Vergílio Ferreira already announces many of the key themes to be developed throughout his entire oeuvre. One of those is the obsession with death; another the problematics of writing. This essay... more
In Carta ao Futuro (Letter to the Future) Vergílio Ferreira already announces many of the key themes to be developed throughout his entire oeuvre. One of those is the obsession with death; another the problematics of writing. This essay attempts a reading of Vergílio Ferreira’s thought through a comparison with another brief but very significant text: Préface à la disparition of Phillipe Lacoue-Labarthe. Although both essays can diverge widely, there is in both a strong preoccupation with reflection on death dialectically in a perspective informed by phenomenology. As a whole both essays also constitute a form of posthumous writing: a writing always geared towards a future to come in which Art, following on the lead of Adorno’s view on the function of philosophy, assumes a redemptive value.
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Neste ensaio aborda-se o processo da construção do sujeito nos “Diários” de Miguel Torga. Ao contrário da nocão, geralmente aceite, de uma continuidade diacrónica do Eu, é proposta uma simulação de continuidade. Fazendo referência ao... more
Neste ensaio aborda-se o processo da construção do sujeito nos “Diários” de Miguel Torga. Ao contrário da nocão, geralmente aceite, de uma continuidade diacrónica do Eu, é proposta uma simulação de continuidade. Fazendo referência ao pensamento de Levinas sobre a relação entre o Eu e o Outro, este ensaio sugere uma leitura do ultimo volume do “Diário” de Torga em que a relação com o Outro é solidária e não já apenas oposicional.
This essay considers the process of subject construction in the “Diaries” of Miguel Torga. Instead of the usually accepted notion of a diachronic continuity of the Self, it proposes rather a simulation of continuity. In reference to the notions of Levinas concerning the relation between self and other, the essay suggests a reading of Torga’s last volume as containing an approximation to the other in solidarity rather than solely in terms of an opposition.
This essay considers the process of subject construction in the “Diaries” of Miguel Torga. Instead of the usually accepted notion of a diachronic continuity of the Self, it proposes rather a simulation of continuity. In reference to the notions of Levinas concerning the relation between self and other, the essay suggests a reading of Torga’s last volume as containing an approximation to the other in solidarity rather than solely in terms of an opposition.
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Fernando Pessoa wrote prolifically in many genres until his untimely death in 1935, and he has long been widely recognized as Portugal’s most influential twentieth century writer. The publication of the Book of Disquiet in 1982, however,... more
Fernando Pessoa wrote prolifically in many genres until his untimely death in 1935, and he has long been widely recognized as Portugal’s most influential twentieth century writer. The publication of the Book of Disquiet in 1982, however, caused a seismic change in the appreciation of his work and its place in Modernism. In that great and vast collection of fragments, Pessoa firmly established his place among the canon of European modernists and radically questioned many of Modernity’s assumptions. Alain Badiou, for example, has argued that philosophers are not yet able to assimilate Pessoa’s thinking.
This new study, one of the first to be dedicated to the Book of Disquiet, takes up that challenge, exploring the text’s connections with photography, film, politics and textuality itself, and developing comparisons with D. H. Lawrence, Walter Benjamin, and Franz Kafka.
This new study, one of the first to be dedicated to the Book of Disquiet, takes up that challenge, exploring the text’s connections with photography, film, politics and textuality itself, and developing comparisons with D. H. Lawrence, Walter Benjamin, and Franz Kafka.
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Faculty of Arts, Utrecht University, Trans 10 – Kamer 1.22, NL-3512JK Utrecht, the Netherlands. E-mail: P.R.DeMedeiros@uu.nl
