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Document Details : Title: Het onmogelijke mogelijk maken Subtitle: Over Een verlangen naar ontroostbaarheid van Patricia de Martelaere Author(s): CLAES, Gerard-Jan Journal: Tijdschrift voor Filosofie Volume: 86 Issue: 1 Date: 2024 Pages: 55-68 DOI: 10.2143/TVF.86.1.3293622 Abstract : In this text, I discuss Patricia de Martelaere’s collection of essays Verlangen naar ontroostbaarheid. In a dozen essays, De Martelaere discusses literature, authorship, suicide, the diary, and the relationship between language and reality and between life and death, among other topics. In her argumentation, these aspects soon take on the dimensions of unsolvable philosophical paradoxes and contradictions. Up to three times, De Martelaere repeats, 'You cannot have your cake and eat it'. It is, after all, impossible to reconcile two contradictory elements. And yet, she will argue, this desire — 'to make the impossible possible' — is what haunts and torments man and life. '[The] existence of the proverb [suggests] that it is exactly that which we actually want'. |
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