Exilio, nación y renovación : Latinoamérica como respuesta al desafío de la renovación en la filosofía del exilio de Mario Berríos Caro
(2020)
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- Lesch, Walter
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- The goal of this research is to arrive at a certain knowledge of social and political utility by addressing a part of the history of Chilean philosophy that was completely ignored until recently, namely the philosophy of the exile after the coup in 1973. In particular, we try to show how the experience of exile permeates and transforms the thought of Mario Berrios Caro, Chilean philosopher exiled in the GDR between 1974 and 1984, who left an important imprint in studies on Latin American philosophy in Chile. To treat exile as a historical problem of philosophical research, the work poses the following methodological question: if, in order to obtain useful knowledge, the knowledge that we seek must come from the unavoidable problems that experience poses to the philosopher, how are we then to understand an experience which, not having lived it, seems foreign to us? How are we to investigate exile when, in principle, we have not experienced it? Based on a reading of some exiled philosophers who have reflected on their own exile (Carrasco, Zambrano, Solanes, Miras), we argue that we can find something communicable and useful in the experience of exile in the particular perspective that an exile has on “belonging.” On the one hand, by finding oneself exiled outside one’s own “where” and without the possibility of settling in the “where” of others (un-space), and also by finding oneself outside one’s own “time,” without the possibility of sharing it with those who live in his or her place of exile (un-time), the exile could give a different perspective on belonging, critical of the one we have as non-exiles. On the other hand, by relying upon a shared experience as co-belonging to the same “time” and the same “where,” this critical perspective can be communicable and thus beneficial to us. Our work then seeks to shed light on this perspective on belonging in Berríos’s writing of exile. In particular, we show how Berríos’s shift from the centrality of the cultural problem in Chile in the first part of his exile to the recovery of the tradition of Latin American philosophy in a second directly affect this experience. This displacement, which we trace back to his own perspective of ideological analysis, would ultimately be Berríos’s response to the problem of national identity, which arises in the struggle against the dictatorship in terms of cultural renewal.
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Silva Rojas, M. (2020). Exilio, nación y renovación : Latinoamérica como respuesta al desafío de la renovación en la filosofía del exilio de Mario Berríos Caro. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/119962