La ceguera idealista de Frege: un examen de la filosofía del lenguaje a partir de Las verdades evidentes de Michel Pêcheux

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to explore the philosophical background of Pecheux's concept of meaning and discursive formation on the basis of the book Las verdades evidentes (LVE). This work represents an intermediate moment in Pecheux's work, in which the main lines of the automatic discourse analysis proposed a few years earlier are subjected to revision. Our interest lies in the fact that in this work Pecheux offers a panoramic point of view on classical philosophies of language, such as those of Port Royal, Frege and Husserl, which allows us to place both concepts in the philosophical rather than the linguistic field; a panorama that in previous works, as in Towards Automatic Discourse Analysis, was restricted to linguistic theories. We will focus on Pecheux's reading of Frege's philosophy of language, corresponding to the second part of LVE ("From the philosophy of language to the theory of discourse"), in order to clarify what Pecheux calls "Frege's blind spot", which illustrates very well Pecheux's general critique of the idealism of the philosophies of language.

Keywords: Automatic discourse analysis. Materialism. Opaque contexts. Discursive and ideological formation. Interdiscourse

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