The Eloquence of Images: Destruction and Disfigurement in Pictorial Vocabular

Resumo

The emergence of the pictorial vocabulary, as opposed to essentialist modes of thought, requires the reinterpretation of a number of philosophical problems, such as personal identity and external objects. The article analyzes the problem of change and loss of these identities, in two opposing perspectives: the disfigurement and destruction, associating the first to idealist empiricism and the second to the philosophy of David Hume belief.