CARTAGENA THINKS: ANA CARRASCO CONDE. PHILOSOPHY AND POETRY: 'AN APPROACH TO THE INEFFABLE'. RAMÓN ALONSO LUZZY CULTURAL CENTER

ANA CARRASCO CONDE
PHILOSOPHY AND POETRY: AN APPROACH TO THE INEFFABLE
Schelling said that we can approach poetically what we cannot yet know conceptually. In this way, he makes use of myth and emphasizes aesthetic intuition over the concept. But this is not a lecture on Schelling. María Zambrano proposed a poetic, harmonizing reason that relates us to others. But this proposal is not an exposition on Zambrano either, but on the relationships between philosophy and poetry, closely linked in the ancient world, and recovered by the poet Hölderlin. How can we unite philosophy and poetry? Is poetry the opposite of the conceptual? How does poetry allow us to approach the ineffable? Can we use poetry to address what exceeds our framework of understanding? How does philosophy operate on language?
Ana Carrasco-Conde is a professor of Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid. She studied at the Autonomous University of Madrid and completed her studies at the University of Paris X Nanterre, the LMU Munich and the TU Berlin. Specialised in German idealism and romanticism and educated in the classical world (degree in Sciences and languages ​​of antiquity), her philosophical concerns focus on the “dark side” of reality (evil, discomfort and terror) or more “indigestible” (pain, death, hopelessness). Her central focus of work is the “unspeakable” and the “unrepresentable”. After delving into Schelling’s Ungrund and the unspeakable abysses of Romanticism, she is currently researching the unspeakable and ineffable in the Greek world, as well as continuing her work on Schelling with the Philosophy of Mythology. He has won the Julián Sanz del Río Research Prize from the DAAD (2012) and the Eugenio Trías Essay Prize in 2023. His latest book is Death in Common (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2024) and he is finishing the book The Body of the Gorgon. Horror and Ancient Philosophy (CBA, 2025).
Presented by: Carlos S. Olmo Bau , professor of Philosophy and poet.