Poesia-tragédia, mimesis e filosofia: duas leituras da poética de Aristóteles

Abstract

Fernando Belo’s rereading of Aristotle’s Poetics, a philosophical semiotic exercise, aims to illustrate the epistemology of language already developed in a previous work, in 1991. Against Plato’s expulsion of the poets from his ideal Republic, Aristotle subordinates poetry to philosophy, and mimesis to the defi nition of ousia, thereby recognizing a place for the poets. Th e fi nal aim of Aristotle’s Poetics was then to create the condiions for an alliance of tragedy and philosophy. In Time and Narrative, Ricoeur “temporalizes” the tragic mythos, but he also redefi nes the concept of mythos or narrative emplotment in Aristotle’s Poetics making it coextensive to the whole narrative fi eld. Paul Ricoeur’s reading of the Poetics “narrativises” the Aristotelian model.

Keywords

• phiolosophical semiotics
• poetics of narrative
• history
• rhetoric
• tragedy
• comedy
• epopéia
• polysemy of logos
• eidos/ethos (two argumentation lines)