Una arqueologia en torno a lo que comunican los silencios y lo que callan las palabras en la filosofia

In: Revista internacional de filosofía política, Heft 24, S. 169-173

Abstract

Sergio Perez's book, Palabras de filosofos. Oralidad, escritura y memoria en la filosofia Antigua (Words of the Philosophers. Orality, Writing, & Memory in Ancient Philosophy) approaches the intellectual habits of the Greeks & Romans during the transition from an oral to a written tradition. He makes the connection between the discourses & the silences of social actors in his thesis that voice & memory constituted the true personality of the classic philosopher until the written culture took over. Contingent & determining factors of that transition are discussed; philosophy was transforming itself into an activity of analytical rigor, for which it needed writing. After that point, philosophy & poetry separated. Perez's sketch of the time shows how the philosopher was paradoxically trapped between the new analytical ambitions of the field & the silence (not writing) his own ethnical perspective forced on him. M. Pflum