La casa en la casa: meditación sobre el lugar del estudio

Abstract

Perhaps because today in the university we no longer find the house of study, some of us have the tendency to exile in our study room to train ourselves in some of its arts, such as reading, writing and meditating on what we read. When we talk about study, it seems relevant to establish a certain distinction between learning -today this notion is crossed by a strong acquisitive tendency- and studying -which has to do with the common world. In his study, the scholar cannot, nor does he want to, separate himself from his object, which has bewitched and seduced him. We can understand the study as an attention to the world, as a technique or an art that seeks to improve itself, as a place and as a way of life. Therefore, this text intends to carry out a meditation on the place, or places, of study, or in other words, a reflection, both philosophical and literary, on the study room, the house in the house, as the writer Peter Handke calls it.