“Hidden Philosophy”: the philosophy among the scribbles

Abstract

Taking inspiration from the technique of Found poetry applied on a philosophical field of the classics of thought for a studio research of “hidden” meanings in the same text, it was possible to move near in a different way students to the philosophical speculation, contaminated by an artistic research of strong visual impact, following the lesson of the Italian artist and writer Emilio Isgrò, with dadaist suggestions. Received a photocopied or torn page from a philosophy book, each student reads the text practising one’s own hermeneutic abilities to arrive selecting only words which revealed in an evoking way a hidden meaning and, therefore, to find. The remain of the text has been concealed becoming graphic background of the same. Pages of philosophical texts, words, underlined parts, printings out, drawings and pictures are all mixed till to create a unique expressive language of the originating human nature.