The freedom of things: rethinking the clinamen today

Authors

  • Valentina Bulo Vargas Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Abstract

The central thesis is that materiality has to do with the horizon that fixes the limits of what we call a body, and that one of its core traits could be thought as freedom. This moment corresponds to the reading made on the clinamen of Epicurus and Lucretius by several contemporary thinkers such as Nancy, Derrida, Serres and Althusser.

Keywords:

Clinamen, Parenklisis, Epicurus, Nancy, Materiality

Author Biography

Valentina Bulo Vargas, Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Doctora en Filosofía por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Académica del Instituto de Estudios Avanzados de la Universidad de Santiago de Chile