A linguagem, o pensamento e a percepção do mundo empírico: David Hume e Flush de Virginia Woolf

Authors

  • Stephanie Hamdan Zahreddine Universidade Estadual do Piauí - UESPI

Keywords:

David Hume, Virginia Woolf, Literature, Causality

Abstract

This work is based on David Hume’s theory of knowledge and intends to investigate its affinities and similarities to Virginia Woolf’s novel Flush. The novel tells the life story of the poet Elizabeth Barrett through her dog’s point of view, exploring the animal’s feelings and behaviors, as well as its condition as a being that does not belong to the world of human language. It will be possible to draw parallels between Hume’s epistemology and Woolf’s work regarding the principles of causality and uniformity in nature, shared by humans and animals. Finally, the article raises questions concerning the limits of language, and the power that language itself might have to impose limits on human experience.

Author Biography

Stephanie Hamdan Zahreddine, Universidade Estadual do Piauí - UESPI

Professora Assistente de Filosofia.

References

HUME, David. Tratado da Natureza Humana. Trad. de Déborah Danowski, 2ª ed. São Paulo: Editora UNESP, 2009.

HUME, David. Ensaios Morais, Políticos e Literários. Trad. de Luciano Trigo. Rio de Janeiro: Ed. Topbooks, 2004.

WOOLF, Virginia. Flush: Memórias de um Cão. Trad. de Ana Ban. L&PM Pocket Editores, 2004.

GARRETT, Don. The Literary Arts in Hume’s Science of the Fancy. Kriterion. Belo Horizonte, nº 108, , p. 161-179. Dez/2003.

Published

2023-02-27

How to Cite

ZAHREDDINE, Stephanie Hamdan. A linguagem, o pensamento e a percepção do mundo empírico: David Hume e Flush de Virginia Woolf. A Palo Seco – Escritos de Filosofia e Literatura, São Cristóvão-SE: GeFeLit, n. 15, p. 42, 2023. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufs.br/apaloseco/article/view/18217. Acesso em: 18 oct. 2024.

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