Jeanne Hersch: A Philosophy of the Contours Authors Roberta De Monticelli Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele Keywords: transcendence, freedom, creation, form, anti-idolatry Abstract The fundamental lines of Jeanne Hersch’s (Geneva, 1919-2000) thought are sketched in the following way: on the one hand, she conceived philosophy as an antiidolatrous service in relation to transcendence and, on the other, as a constant conscious-raising of the gestures of freedom, which contribute to making our life irreducible to the given and on the same time profoundly individuated, here and now. We show how the ontology of this thinker is not separable from her aesthetics, or rather from her human actions theory like finite participation and incarnated in the creation. We illustrate the connection, especially underlined by her, between personal moral consistency and responsibility of theoretical thought, taking Heidegger as a negative example, as a defender of Nazism. We discuss Jeanne Hersch’s clear position against the seductions and verbal liturgies of his bewitching thought, irresponsible in relation to the truth and “rooted in contempt”. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2010-07-21 Issue No. 13 (2007): Mujer y silencio. Jeanne Hersch Section Dossier 2 License The Author retains ownership of the copyright in this article, unless the opposite is expressed, and all rights not expressly granted in this agreement, including the nonexclusive right to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display the article in print or electronic form, and grants, Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat the exclusive rights to print publication of the Article for a period beginning when this Agreement is executed and ending twelve (12) months after the first publicaton of the work in this Journal. After this time, the work will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license, by which the article must be credited to the Author and the Journal be credited as first place of publication. Beginning twelve (12) months after the article´s first publication, the Author is free to enter in seperate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work as published in this journal. The Author is encouraged to post the work online (eg in institutional or subject repositories, or on their website) after the exclusivity period of twelve (12) months has expired, as it can lead to productive exchanges as well as a greater citation of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).
