Language as Poetry and Drama According to Benedito Nunes

Rodrigo  Duarte

doi:10.25038/am.v0i26.464

Authors

Rodrigo Duarte

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i26.464

Keywords:

Heidegger, Clarice Lispector, Brazilian philosophy, contemporary Brazilian aesthetics

Abstract

Benedito Nunes was a Brazilian philosopher and literary critic who developed his activities in the second half of the twentieth and the first decade of the twenty first centuries. A graduate in law, he was, in the beginning of his intellectual career, an autodidact in philosophy, until he could attend Merleau-Ponty’s and Paul Ricouer’s courses in France, in 1960. His publications, ranging from didactic books to treatises and anthologies of essays, approach mainly topics of aesthetics and philosophy of art (particularly philosophy of literature). In this article special attention is given to two of his most relevant books: Passagem para o poético. Filosofia e Poesia em Heidegger [Passage to the poetic. Philosophy and poetry in Heidegger] – winner of 1987’s Prêmio Jabuti award – and O drama da linguagem. Uma leitura de Clarice Lispector [The Drama of Language. A Reading of Clarice Lispector].

Article received: April 23, 2021; Article accepted: July 30, 2021; Published online: October 15, 2021; Original scholarly paper

Author Biography

Rodrigo Duarte

Department of Philosophy, Federal University of Minas Gerais
Brazil

Rodrigo Duarte earned his PhD at the University of Kassel (Germany) in 1990 and became professor of the Philosophy Department at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) the same year. He was visiting scholar at the University of California in Berkeley (USA) in 1997, visiting professor at the Bauhaus Universität Weimar (Germany) in 2000, and at the Hochschule Mannheim (Germany) in 2011. He served as president of the Brazilian Association of Aesthetics (ABRE) from May 2006 to October 2014. In addition to numerous articles and chapters of collective works, in Brazil and abroad, his book publications include (amongst others): Teoria crítica da indústria cultural (2003), Dizer o que não se deixa dizer. Para uma filosofia da expressão (2008), Deplatzierungen. Aufsätze zur Ästhetik und kritischen Theorie (2009, 2nd edition: 2017), Pós-história de Vilém Flusser. Gênese-anatomia-desdobramentos (2012) and Varia Aesthetica. Ensaios sobre arte & sociedade (2014).

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i26.464 DOI: https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i26.464