« Comprendre et se taire » Plotin et les discours du silence

There are many discussions on and even of silence in the work of Plotin which cannot be reduced to the question of the unspeakable. Plotinian silence operates less against language than against language that is simply an instrument of action. Plotinian silence is thus a correlate of a new causal model and presides over the invention of a new language, poetic rather than practical, whose echo can be found in Goethe or Novalis.