Poverty and passivity: a Blanchotian reading of human nature

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  • Noelia Billi Universidad de Buenos Aires - CONICET
    Argentina

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https://doi.org/10.24310/Contrastescontrastes.v20i1.2304

Keywords:

Poverty, Passivity, Blanchot, Heidegger, Esposito

Abstract

Human negativity is “dialectized” within the framework of the compensatory conceptions of Human Nature. After analysing this point, we will call attention to the difficulties it implies when approaching the contemporary questions around the Human Being. We will demonstrate the importance of renewing the notion of ‘absence of nature’ that circulates in a certain German line of research on the human, of which the notion of ‘poverty’ postulated by Heidegger will constitute the exemplum. Making use of the interpretation of “poverty” made by M. Blanchot, we will indicate the possibility of reading the absence of nature not as pure negativity but as nondialectizable passivity that affects Man.

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  • Noelia Billi, Universidad de Buenos Aires - CONICET
    Universidad de Buenos Aires - CONICET

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2017-03-27

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Billi, N. (2017). Poverty and passivity: a Blanchotian reading of human nature. Contrastes. Revista Internacional De Filosofía, 20(1). https://doi.org/10.24310/Contrastescontrastes.v20i1.2304