Papers by Azucena Palavicini Sánchez
Protrepsis, 2013
La autoría de Kierkegaard representa un tema de debate tanto para sus lectores, como para sus inv... more La autoría de Kierkegaard representa un tema de debate tanto para sus lectores, como para sus investigadores. Este artículo busca revisar los esfuerzos de varias lecturas del danés
Jean Wahl can be considered a historian, a poet and also a philosopher. His main interests run fr... more Jean Wahl can be considered a historian, a poet and also a philosopher. His main interests run from Plato and Aristotle to Søren Kierkegaard, Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973) and Jean Paul Sartre (1905-80). His research interests also include figures such as William James (1842-1910), Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), Karl Jaspers (1883-1969), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-61), Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) and his own mentor Henry Bergson (1859-1941). Jules Lequier (1814-62), Chaim Perelman (1912-84) and William Sheldon (1898-1977) appear in his repertoire as well. Historically speaking, Jean Wahl is acknowledged as an authority on authors such as Kierkegaard, G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1830) and Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). He is also known as a serious scholar on literary figures such as Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-81), Nikolai Berdyaev 1874-1948), Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91), Franz Kafka (1883-1924) and Pierre Jean Jouve (1887-1976), to mention a few.
In opposition to several philosophical trends such as Platonism, Cartesianism or Hegelianism, he developed what he called a “philosophy of existence.” Wahl studied Plato, Hegel and René Descartes (1596-1650), as a means of approaching his central concern: to establish his main argument about reality. In other words, he approached essence and existence as opposite concepts in order to achieve an accurate view of them. Wahl ventured into topics relevant for his own philosophical project regarding existence, unity and plurality. In this sense, he was not interested in fashion or philosophical tendencies but in fundamental questions: “in many cases, Jean Wahl may be defined as the child’s question within the Trojan walls of thought.” One of his basic questions was how philosophy can be related to existence, mainly to human existence.
Wahl discovered in Kierkegaard the clearest approach to the kind of philosophy that he intended to develop. In this article we will try to show Wahl’s own interpretation of Kierkegaard, and the influence that Kierkegaard had on his later philosophy. In addition, we will try to explain one of Wahl’s most relevant interests: comparing and contrasting Kierkegaard with different authors, especially those related to the existentialist movement.
Capítulo de libro. Se muestra la recepción de Kierkegaard en México a partir de la segunda década... more Capítulo de libro. Se muestra la recepción de Kierkegaard en México a partir de la segunda década del siglo veinte.
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Papers by Azucena Palavicini Sánchez
In opposition to several philosophical trends such as Platonism, Cartesianism or Hegelianism, he developed what he called a “philosophy of existence.” Wahl studied Plato, Hegel and René Descartes (1596-1650), as a means of approaching his central concern: to establish his main argument about reality. In other words, he approached essence and existence as opposite concepts in order to achieve an accurate view of them. Wahl ventured into topics relevant for his own philosophical project regarding existence, unity and plurality. In this sense, he was not interested in fashion or philosophical tendencies but in fundamental questions: “in many cases, Jean Wahl may be defined as the child’s question within the Trojan walls of thought.” One of his basic questions was how philosophy can be related to existence, mainly to human existence.
Wahl discovered in Kierkegaard the clearest approach to the kind of philosophy that he intended to develop. In this article we will try to show Wahl’s own interpretation of Kierkegaard, and the influence that Kierkegaard had on his later philosophy. In addition, we will try to explain one of Wahl’s most relevant interests: comparing and contrasting Kierkegaard with different authors, especially those related to the existentialist movement.
In opposition to several philosophical trends such as Platonism, Cartesianism or Hegelianism, he developed what he called a “philosophy of existence.” Wahl studied Plato, Hegel and René Descartes (1596-1650), as a means of approaching his central concern: to establish his main argument about reality. In other words, he approached essence and existence as opposite concepts in order to achieve an accurate view of them. Wahl ventured into topics relevant for his own philosophical project regarding existence, unity and plurality. In this sense, he was not interested in fashion or philosophical tendencies but in fundamental questions: “in many cases, Jean Wahl may be defined as the child’s question within the Trojan walls of thought.” One of his basic questions was how philosophy can be related to existence, mainly to human existence.
Wahl discovered in Kierkegaard the clearest approach to the kind of philosophy that he intended to develop. In this article we will try to show Wahl’s own interpretation of Kierkegaard, and the influence that Kierkegaard had on his later philosophy. In addition, we will try to explain one of Wahl’s most relevant interests: comparing and contrasting Kierkegaard with different authors, especially those related to the existentialist movement.