Filosofia e censura: uma reflexão na trilha d’O passeio do cético

Abstract

In an essay that would become a classic, Leo Strauss has put back on the agenda the need to pay attention to what he called writing between the lines, an imperative forgotten by modern historical research, which was forged in a context where persecution and censorship were already absent. The kind of reflection elaborated by Strauss, however, had already been conceived by modern authors themselves, who sometimes thematized their own writing and the dangers involved in this activity. This work takes as its motto the preliminary speech to Diderot's The Skeptic's Walk, in which the author reflects on the situation of the writer in the mid-eighteenth century and, from there, unfold a timeline that allows us to scale the scope of this reflection.