Time, Language, and Memory Philosophical Inquiry and Poetic Expression in the Experience of the Limits of Thought

Abstract

On the basis of J.-P. Sartre and M. Heidegger, the article addresses the relation among temporality, consciousness, and understanding, and examines the experience of indeterminacy that is linked to the intuition of the limits of what can be thought and expressed, in order to articulate philosophy and poetry as forms to approach that boundary. Two presuppositions are set forth; the questioning of the radical demarcation between philosophical inquiry and poetic expression, and the rational approach to the limits of thinking and saying, but without rationalist prejudices. Thus, we assert a way of understanding philosophy that originates in M. Heidegger and achieves a brilliant expression in M. Foucault and J. Derrida.

Keywords

• J.-P. Sartre
• M. Heidegger
• M. Foucault
• J. Derrida
• memory
• time.