The Violence of the Look
A Phenomenological-Literary Approach
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https://doi.org/10.69498/ri.2025.21.504Keywords:
Look, Violence, Sartre, Literature, PhenomenologyAbstract
The article aims to elucidate the phenomenon of the look from a double approach, namely the phenomenological and
the literary, considering that both can constitute a methodology proper to a philosophy of the sensible as literature. In the first place, we will analyse the exercise of the look which, in its approach to the world, foreshorten it and, therefore, limit it in order to make its apprehension possible. In this section, the texts of Eduardo Del Estal and Alessandro Baricco will be used to compare the exercise of the look with that of language, with which they share significant similarities: both involve an exercise of a certain
violence in the capture of the phenomenon. Secondly, based on the reflections of Jean-Paul Sartre and Marcel Proust, we will delve into an analysis of the look as it is directed at another or at ourselves, as a violent look that objectifies and, at the same time, manifests an insurmountable limit.
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