<i>Mímesis, poíesis</i> y <i>kátharsis</i> en la teoría estética de Leopoldo Marechal: un diálogo con Platón y Aristóteles

Abstract

This paper investigates Marechal’s reception of three fundamental notions of Platonic and Aristotelian aesthetics: mímesis, poíesis and kátharsis. The first notion is not strictly a copy of reality, an issue that had already been rejected by Plato, but an overflowing of the forms that transforms the natural order of things and occurs through the mediation of the poet’s mind. The second is a generating capacity that updates the necessary and universal on a contingent matter. Marechal takes from Plato the notion of poíesis as passage of non-being to being, but does not hesitate to incorporate Aristotelian terminology to provide a complete idea of poetic production. Finally, Marechal receipts the Aristotelian notion of kátharsis and performs the transposition of the effects of the tragedy to the comedy. Compassion, fear and ridicule are the cause of the purification and ascent of the soul.

Keywords

• mímesis
• poíesis
• kátharsis
• estética
• recepción