Critical notes on the critique of affections

on intellectualism, Eurocentrism and anthropocentrism

Abstract

Campello (2022) intends to criticize emotions through the criticism of language, analyzing in particular narratives of injustice the context of use of expressions about emotions and their relationship with norms and institutions. Along this path, the concepts of identity and property as forged by philosophical modernity and inherited by us through the way we treat emotions and expressions of injustice are critically treated. In this critical text, I present Campello's main ideas and discuss how the proposed articulation between Hegel and Wittgenstein, despite being seminal, still has several Eurocentric, anthropocentric and intellectualist traits.