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Document Details : Title: L'idiot de Velázquez, selon María Zambrano et Ramón Gaya Subtitle: Une expérience de la grâce ou du duende lorquien Author(s): LACAU ST GUILY, Camille Journal: Tijdschrift voor Filosofie Volume: 84 Issue: 4 Date: 2022 Pages: 573-597 DOI: 10.2143/TVF.84.4.3291529 Abstract : The painting 'El Niño de Vallecas' (1635-1645) by Diego de Velázquez, which the two friends, the philosopher María Zambrano and the painter Ramón Gaya, interpret in several of their philosophical-poetic essays, invites them to contemplate the a priori disgraceful figure of the idiot. However, this idiot makes them experience an ascent, an inner elevation because he is a pure and innocent presence, an 'epiphany as a face' (E. Levinas). This idiot plunges the one who looks at him beyond reality, into the sacred truth, coated with his 'being-in this way'. Certainly, he is not a Dasein, a being, a 'being-there' in a quest for Being, but he otherwise verges on and reveals Being. This poor in spirit is a blessed person who, incapable of rationalist or intellectualist pride, lives at the foot of the Tree of Life, in ignorance of good and evil, bringing the other into the presence of mystery and of grace, where all is revealed. |
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