O trabalho de instauração sob a esfinge da obra a-ser-feita na floresta dos virtuais: uma introdução à filosofia de Étienne Souriau

Abstract

The present text is a reapresentation, a synthetic adaptation and a free translation of the introduction made by Isabelle Stengers and Bruno Latour (in "The Sphinx of the Work") to the English translation of "Les differents modes d'existence", 1943 ("The Different Modes of existence", 2015), written by the French philosopher Étienne Souriau. The reason for doing so is the relative oblivion that came upon it, despite its strength, plus the surprise that causes a philosophy that not only undoes the Kantian fissure but brings the art and what it has of more intensive, that is its way of doing, to the center of the ontological question - what, after all, do we do by existing?