(2010) Rivista di estetica 44.
Traditionally, from Aristotle to Hegel, has been considered as valuable the following sequence: Thought Word Writing. In this essay I claim that the right order of the sequence is utterly the opposite: (i) oral language does not come first, gesture does; (ii) writing is independent from language both because gesture comes first and because writing, differently from language, can record; finally (iii) the capacity of recording and of communicating is typical of the soul seen as a tabula.
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Ferraris, M. (2010). Scrittura, archiscrittura, pensiero. Rivista di estetica 44, pp. 45-60.
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