Exile and Horror in the Works of María Zambrano and Adriana Cavarero
Autobiography, 'Gedankenexperiment', and Concept of Limit
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https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.49.2022.33326Keywords:
exile, state, Antigone, bio-politics, ethicsAbstract
Exile is an autobiographic experience, as well as a theme of philosophical
reflection in the works of María Zambrano. In this article I propose an interpretation of the figures of exile and the subject suffering exile that takes them as a Gedankenexperiment
– that is an hypothetic and imaginative reasoning turning around a concrete
example – that allows Zambrano to develop a philosophical argument within the frame of figurative language. The interpretation allows me to follow the circulation of the figures and the influence they had in the development of Italian bio-political philosophy, most prominently in the works of Adriana Cavarero. Further, I argue that the figures of the exile, and the subject suffering exile, are understood philosophically as a limit
interior to the state in the works of both authors, and that this idea carries with it ethical consequences. I conclude that the method of writing figuratively is a conscious choice
of style that aims at making the ethical stance found in the philosophical elaboration effective on the level of the text.
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