Banca de DEFESA: DANIELA SZWERTSARF

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : DANIELA SZWERTSARF
DATA : 18/12/2020
HORA: 12:00
LOCAL: Salvador
TÍTULO:

Subjectivity, Truth and Literature: Crisis of the dualist definition of Human Being and its resonance in The Passion According to G. H., by Clarice Lispector

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Cartesian dualism; language; narrative; subject; personal identity; literature; aesthetics.

PÁGINAS: 145
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Humanas
ÁREA: Filosofia
RESUMO:

The aim of this work is to seek out ways of understanding the concept of human being, but setting out from non-scientific bases. The mental model inherited from the Cartesian philosophy paved the way for the scientific knowledge of the human. Modernity and the advancement of technology reinforce the Cartesian heritage and its dualistic explanation, in which the body and its movement are explained in a disenchanted way, as mere mechanisms. The mental realm also became object of scientific explanation, being described by regularities and causal laws. However, this condition creates paradoxical situations that are unbearable for human consciousness. Thus, it is possible to think of forms of human truth based on intelligibility, intuition and expression, and not on the formulation of sentences that follow the scientific protocols of knowledge. For this, it is necessary to understand the expressive dimension of language. The way we attribute meanings to different everyday situations is anchored in the convention of cultural practices. Narrative here is understood within the spectrum of the expressive speech act. The narrator is the source of meaning in a narrative. The meaning of the narrative does not stem from the logical-causal link among events, but from its ability to express emotions. The truth and the sense, therefore, are necessaril y expressed by a subject imbued with experiences and emotions. This truth is appropriate and legitimate, not opposing to objectivity. Therefore, the way human beings attribute meaning to their experiences is neither scientific nor rational. We attribute meanings through intuition and attunement to cultural practices. Literature, therefore, can be understood as a cultural practice through which we attribute meaning to experiences. Literature achieves universality since it is anchored in a grammar of values shared by culture. Thus, the literary text expresses more than an individual reality, finding resonance among the readers. It is possible to see in modern art several manifestations of the unbearable condition to which the dualistic and scientific explanations have led the human. The Passion According to G. H., a novel by Clarice Lispector, is read in this context. The human-nature opposition gains paradoxical contours in this work. We try to understand better these paradoxical outlines in dialogue with philosophers like Wittgenstein, Peter Hacker, Richard Eldridge, Peter Goldie and Charles Altieri.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 1720854 - RAFAEL LOPES AZIZE
Interno - 2358689 - LEONARDO JORGE DA HORA PEREIRA
Interno - 2335536 - VINICIUS DOS SANTOS
Externo à Instituição - ALICE MARA SERRA
Externo à Instituição - RICHARD THOMAS ELDRIDGE