Las vidas secretas de las cosas: una aproximación fenomenológica a la narrativa vital de Oliver Sacks

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Enmarcado en el giro fenomenológico que han experimentado los estudios literarios en las últimas décadas, este artículo analiza la narrativa vital de Oliver Sacks en Uncle Tungsten (2001) y Gratitude (2015) como textos que representan el acto de la percepción corporal desde el punto de vista de la relación del ser con los objetos. Sacks se muestra en estas obras autobiográficas como lo que Maurice Merleau-Ponty describió como el cuerpo fenomenológico, un cuerpo dotado de sentidos con una función activa e intencional –en el sentido fenomenológico de la acción orientada hacía algo– con respecto a la percepción de sí mismo, la naturaleza y el otro. La obra de Sacks se analiza aplicando cuatro conceptos de la fenomenología de la percepción de Merleau-Ponty: la perspectiva, el enigma, el quiasma, y la carne. Este artículo presenta la narrativa de Sacks como un brillante ejemplo literario de la concepción que Gilbert G. Germain tiene de la fenomenología de la percepción de Merleau-Ponty como el regreso a un mundo permeado por una visión afectiva, lírica y enigmática de la ciencia en la que la percepción corporal de los objetos de la naturaleza es esencial para el reconocimiento de uno mismo y del entorno.

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Cerezo Moreno, M. (2024). Las vidas secretas de las cosas: una aproximación fenomenológica a la narrativa vital de Oliver Sacks. Cultura, Lenguaje Y Representación, 33, 79–95. https://doi.org/10.6035/clr.7177
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