Abstract

«Every Emotion is a somatic Experience»: Feelings, internal Organs and Perception in Goffredo Parise (between Arendt and Merleau-Ponty) The paper aims to relate some literary devices of Goffredo Parise’s writing to several philosophical concepts issued by Merleau-Ponty and Arendt’s thinking. The notion of perception proves, namely, to be a productive interpretation of Parise’s work; philosophy and literature converge on the same conclusions. On the one hand, we deal with the primacy of perception elaborated by Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology and Arendt awareness regarding the supremacy of appearance. On the other hand, we analyse a literature writing marked by the intrinsic connection between inside and outside. Parise carries on a deep research using a multi-level approach (content, vocabulary, syntax and style) to “shake off” intellectual theories and enlighten individual experience as an act of knowledge of reality.