BEFORE THE PICTURE. NOTES TO APPROACH THE HERESIES OF SARTRE AND BARTHES

• Grant number: 23/10664-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: December 31, 2025
• End date: February 27, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Literature Theory
• Principal Investigator: Leda Tenório da Motta
• Grantee: Leda Tenório da Motta
• Host Investigator: Georges Didi-Huberman
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Comunicação, Letras e Artes. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France

Abstract

The project focuses on pointing out the background relationships between the philosophies of meaning of Jean-Paul Sartre and Roland Barthes, in addition to the intertextual and punctual ones suggested in the critical apparatus of complete Barhesian works and biographies of the latter. Specifically, it aims to point out links, for the time being untouched, between the respective philosophies of the gaze. It is about showing how, in parallel with a radical critique of language, which leads to the verification of the limits of literature, both devices assume an imagining consciousness, productive in and of itself, which constitutes a cognitive instance of its own order. Hence, among other presumed affinities, those to be discovered among the developments of The Camera Lucida and notes on Sartre's historic incursion into the images of Carter Bresson.