Family Writings: Towards a Non-patriarchal Tradition

Abstract

Philosophical writing is a subject of hospitality and family. His hegemonic style in Western philosophy has been the thesis and, as Francisco Vidarte affirms, every thesis implies a prosthesis—that is, putting the family ahead and taking a position in front of the family. Writing implies a complete change in the dialogical paradigm of philosophical thought. The inclusion of a philosophical writing has been possible through submitting this to a patriarchal scheme, in which the condition of the title of “philosophical” is the subjection to the mandate to perpetuate the father’s voice. So, writing has been a kind of bastard progeny that only works as a copy and repetition. It is in the Platonic philosophy where we can find one of the first montages of this scene that unites writing, family, hospitality, and love. However, the instauration of a vigilant father for the philosophical writing requires the children, and also the female figure. And it is precisely due to the entry of khôra in the Platonic text itself that we will be able to think other forms of the hospitality of writing, namely, the possibility of other voices being woven there: writings of the women, of daughters, of those without family, of those not yet born, or of those born without a father—that is, all those who have been in the margins of this philosophical scheme.