"Perspectivism without perspective? The Idea of ' a Point of View from Nowhere'." Un perspectivisme sans perspective? l'idée d'un "point de vue de nulle part". En Fr

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Beyond the past, present, future and possible conceptual varieties and variations as well asapplications or uses, our purpose is to try to understand what can be concealed and revealed, in termsof residual elements, the various & multiple aspectual dimensions of the idea of " View from Nowhere".For these reasons, we propose to question the concept of "point of view/ View from" from thefollowing interrogation: to what extent would it be necessary for thought to be able to go beyond thelimits inherent to any human and individual perspective, necessarily particular and subjective? Ourproposal will question the origins of "perspectivism" in order to circumscribe a certain conceptualindeterminacy which seems to haunt also all or part of its possible contemporary uses. To reflect onthe different systems where it can be operative and on the structuring function of the "perspectivity",to determine certain epistemic and historical contexts which bring this last one to the metaphysicalagenda, to define the problems and limits of any logic of the "point of view" and the various relatedconceptual strategies, elaborated by the philosophers when they seize the idea of perspective and itsaspectual dimensions, such will be the stake of our subject which will undoubtedly tend, according tothe points of view, to claim or not to exceed any perspective... .