El silencio como recurso del individuo en Thoreau y Nietzsche

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  • Elena Nájera Universitat de València

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https://doi.org/10.7203/qfia.3.1.7088

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Abstract: The article addresses the vindication of silence in Thoreau’s and Nietzsche’s philosophies as a critical tool against the lack of authenticity that threatens the individual in modern societies. The background for making sense of this comparison is the convergent willingness, in both sides of the Atlantic, to refute the enlightened notion of citizenship. Both authors depart from the observations of the expressive deficiencies —epistemological and, essentially, ethical— of language that public life enacts. Their respective accounts lead them to an eccentric understanding of philosophy as a form of life, despite their different moral sensibilities.

Keywords: Thoreau, Nietzsche, silence, individual.

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2016-04-02

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Nájera, E. (2016). El silencio como recurso del individuo en Thoreau y Nietzsche. Quaderns De Filosofia, 3(1), 51–69. https://doi.org/10.7203/qfia.3.1.7088
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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2016): Silence/s

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