Abstract

NANCY, Jean-Luc  and  MORENO ROMO, Juan Carlos. The spirit exists in a plural way. Escritos - Fac. Filos. Let. Univ. Pontif. Bolivar. [online]. 2013, vol.21, n.47, pp.395-418. ISSN 0120-1263.

The authors of the following paper talk about the different relation they have with philosophy in the Spanish and French languages, concluding that the difference is found mainly in the "spirits" that separate us, though being linguistically close. while the Protestant Reformation and the Counter-Reformation demanded in France for a "humanism of objective knowledge, the individual and progress", the Spaniard Culture developed a "paradoxical humanism of faith, expansion and the games of appearance". The "spirit of philosophy" (Descartes, Hegel's ancestor) was developed in Northern Europe, while in Southern (Mediterranean) Europe bloomed the "spirit of fiction" (Unamuno's, Ortega's Borges' and Kunderas's Cervantes). Concern for a world that could be no more than a dream, or even madness -whence, in the end, the Cartesian, along with Cervantine and the Calderonian, cogito will reappear- is, however, in first place a Spanish concern and that is exactly what is worth to be studied and thought. A key element for this enquiry is the confirmation, highlighted by Nancy when he is answering to the problem of describing our philosophy as "mere literature", of the "loss of confidence in the adventures of sense" that is characteristic of Modernity (or, at least, of the Northern version of the west, i.e., the "spirit of German philosophy", which after the effect of Nazism migrated to France and the United States). where Unamuno pointed to the necessity of "Hispanicize Europe" more than Europeanize Spain, Jean-Luc Nancy recognizes that the west requires, once again, to be opened to the adventure and the risk of thinking.

Keywords : French Philosophy; Hispanic Philosophy; Cogito; Spirit; Faith.

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