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La physis del mundo en la concepción barroca de Baltasar Gracián

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    Sáez Rueda, Luis
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    Sáez Rueda, Luis

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    Journal article
    Language:
    Spanish; Castilian
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    text (article)
    Published:
    2021
    In:
    Hipogrifo: Revista de Literatura y Cultura del Siglo de Oro ISSN 2328-1308 Vol. 9, Nº. 2, 2021, pags. 981-997
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    This article tries to show, taking the work of Baltasar Gracián as a reference, that the baroque experience of Deus absconditus leads one to presuppose a physis inherent in the world. Faced with the thesis of an exclusive opposition between the transcendent infinite whole and the nothingness of the world, I defend the inclusive relationship between the two in the form of a non-present presence, or present absence, of the divine in the world, an aporia that is shown to generate the depth of the finite. The presence of the Artificer in this sphere makes it possible to affirm both a physis of the natural and a physis of the cultural world, related by wit. The simultaneous lack of presence of the divine as a totality implies a physis of the finite world in its broadest sense, in which the two aforementioned physis come together. It is a paradoxical physis of what is created, an autopoietic matrix that opens up a peculiar infinitely infinite infinite in the finite


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