Le Petit Prince and the Imagination of the Invisible

Abstract

Le Petit Prince has inspired studies in various academic disciplines and its theoretical value has been recognized by important contemporary philosophers. This paper shows that Saint-Exupéry intends in this work to try a «way of seeing», a gnoseology capable of recovering the vision of the invisible realities that give meaning to human life. We will justify this reading from the Aristotelian poetic tradition updated in the theory and hermeneutical methodology of authors such as Paul Ricoeur and Alfonso López Quintás.

Keywords

• hermeneutics
• saint-exupéry
• imagination
• gnoseology
• poetics