Abstract

CRAGNOLINI, Mónica B.. La vida "da que pensar": El otro, la muerte, la vida. Rev. latinoam. filos. [online]. 2006, vol.32, n.2, pp.273-286. ISSN 1852-7353.

ABSTRACT: In this paper, the question of Otherness is analyzed pointing out the difference between two branches of the French contemporary philosophy. The one (Blanchot, Derrida, etc.) works the question of Otherness giving an accent around the themes of the "death"; meanwhile the other (represented by Ricoeur) establish the problem in the questions of "life". From this point of view, the question of the Other is in relation with the Otherness of the flesh. Precisely, it is the Otherness that takes Ricoeur to recapture that ethical misfoundation of the desire that became clear since their first works. Of course, that view of desire remits to Spinoza and the passion of living. In contrary, in the other line of authors, the question of the flesh is related with the mortal community: the "senescence". The senescence in Ricoeur continues remitting "life" in its own effort to exist and continue "living". Life "gives that to think", but it cannot be confined in the limits of the understanding, and for that reason it is always unappropriate, an opaque bottom of potentiality.

Keywords : Life; Death; Senescence; Otherness.

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