Truth and Praxis in the Early Philosophy of León Rozitchner

Abstract

In this article I propose to recompose the way in which León Rozitchner (1924-2011) links truth and praxis in the early writings of his philosophy. In the first part of the work, I propose to recompose the conception of truth elaborated by Rozitchner, mainly from his writings of the sixties. There you will see an idea of truth closely linked to the way you understand the historical constitution of the subject. Once this is done, I will focus on his conception of the body as an index of truth, in order to account for the affective dimension of this problem. In the third section, I will show how this definition of truth, based on the knowledge of bodies, gives rise to a certain way of thinking about praxis, understood in Marxian terms, as Umwälzende Praxis. By way of conclusion, I will end by pointing out the importance of these early ideas of Rozitchner in the later development of his philosophy.