«Por qué se escribe»: Zambrano and the edge of the rift

Abstract

Starting from the analysis

of the essay ¶\Por qu.

se escribe¶] (1934),

written by the young

Mar.a Zambrano, the

article investigates

the general scriptural

practice of the philosopher,

showing what

gravitates and agglutinates

around it: both the questions

explicitly explored

by her thought — like

passivity, solitude, emptiness,

the word as a creative

agent — and the less

explicit but nevertheless

stimulating questions —

like the role of the impersonal

and identification as

a gesture both acted and

suffered of the internal/

external rift to the self.