︎ The Author and the Philosopher: The Concreteness of Philosophical Writing

September 27, 2022

In philosophical invention, what is the part of knowledge and the work of writing? Is there not an author in the "subsoil basement" - to use Dostoyevsky's term - that philosophy tends to deny for the sake of objectivity and transparency in the order of reasons? The project is not to put subjectivity in philosophy, but to manifest something in the philosophical invention through two "I's", that of the philosopher and that of the writer.

The concreteness of the writing would consist then in the amalgam (concret: cum + cresco, I am growing by amalgam) of an elementary gesture in the logos, trace of the human in the philosophy.

(Anne-Françoise Schmid)