Paulo Margutti & José Crisóstomo de Souza on the article “Note on language and reality, practices and things”

Abstract

Paulo Margutti and José Crisóstomo debate the possibility or impossibility of surpassing correspondistic representationalism, and particularly the alleged linguocentrism of contemporary, post linguistic turn, philosophy, for which, as it seems, we can only move from language to language, in whose magic circle we are unavoidably shut. That being the case, the world “out there” escapes us again, and relativism, agnosticism and skepticism once again is our lot. In Nietzsche, for instance, is language, always metaphoric, that must reflect our practical-perspective ways, bodily and affective, of “drawing” the world, or just the opposite? What about in Maturana? For Crisóstomo, to whom in the beginning is the deed, we overcome all through our entanglement with the world by means of the sensible creative nature of our practices, and by translating beliefs into behavior. While, for Margutti, on the other hand, none of that displaces the primacy of language, itself a kind of practice and behavior. Beyond all that, Margutti questions Crisóstomo’s use, for his practical-poietic standpoint, in a supposedly non idealist our dualist manner, of the notion of self-consciousness, central to German idealism.