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Les Mots et les choses fue recibido como una “novedad” enojosa hace cincuenta años. Pero se inscribe, más bien, en una tradición romántica de libro soñado en una larga serie de otros sueños del pasado. Michel Foucault comparte con la tradición romántica no sólo la admiración por el Quijote y la pintura del barroco sino también la vinculación de filosofía y literatura. Aquí se apuntan algunos de los elementos compartidos con el romanticismo. Pero el trabajo se centra en la literatura que le permitió desembarazarse de la filosofía universitaria. Su concepto de la literatura retrocede a un viaje órfico compartido por Novalis y Blanchot. Arribar al conocimiento, en tal trance iniciático, supone conocer y experimentar la muerte, el silencio y la noche. Se trata de un viaje inscrito en la Biblioteca y el celo erudito. Recabar todas las palabras muertas del pasado requiere de mayor sentido trágico que la Enciclopedia ilustrada. También mayor voluntad de conocimiento que “La Chinoise”. Fifty years ago, Les mots et les choses was considered an irritating “novelty”. However, it is rather inscribed in the romantic tradition of the book dreamed through a long series of past dreams. Michel Foucault shares with the Romantic tradition not only the admiration of Don Quixote and Baroque painting but also its particular connection between philosophy and literature. Hereinafter I explore some of the elements he shared with Romanticism. This essay focuses on his work on literature that enabled him to move beyond philosophy as a university discipline. His concept of literature might be traced back to an Orphic journey as the one taken by Novalis and Blanchot. As a rite of passage, knowledge becomes the understanding and experience of death, silence and the night. This is a journey inscribed in the Library and the erudite zeal. Gathering past dead words requires a more tragic sense than the Enlightened Encyclopedia. It also requires a greater will to know than “La Chinoise”
Foucault, silencio, Blanchot, Orfeo, dolor, muerte, escritura, literatura moderna, poesía, pensamiento del Exterior, Romanticismo, Novalis
Foucault, silencio, Blanchot, Orfeo, dolor, muerte, escritura, literatura moderna, poesía, pensamiento del Exterior, Romanticismo, Novalis
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