Primo Levi, Simone de Beauvoir e Wittgenstein: uma apologia da comunicação

Abstract

In this paper, aims to indicate, following the horizon proposed by Primo Levi in The drowned and the saved [1986], that it is possible to communicate or decrease the distance between expressing and comprehending. As a hypothesis, we will argue that although we are not allowed to feel in the other's place, it is possible for us to understand their expression; this understanding would be based on a conversion of the gaze, founded on a desire to communicate. For this, we will use – in the horizon of Levi's problematic – some elements of Simone de Beauvoir's philosophy, especially her notion of situation, and of Ludwig Wittgenstein, with emphasis on his notion of panoramic presentation. Both notions mentioned suggest, in our view, methodical atitudes which Levi approached.