Políticas y estéticas del miedo

Las afecciones crepusculares

Abstract

This works aims to explore some key items in the philosophical and anthropological conceptions of fear, its relation to identity and to the link to the other, to exclusion, disappearance and destruction as primordial experiences related to helplessness. This text refers to the contribution of Kierkegaard, on the relevance of the relation of fear to language, silence and faith, as well as its paradoxical relation to ethics. In turn, the reflection on ethics develops itself into a brief consideration of the relation between fear and piety as put forward by Marcel Schwob in the wake of the anthropological perspective of Rousseau. Finally, the ethical sense of fear in modern world, through the reflection of the meaningful historical relations, between respect, law and terror, illuminates some cardinal issues on the political uses of fear and also on the connections between the aesthetical experience and ter