Abstract

OLSZEVICKI, Nicolás. ¿Es compatible el progreso de la razón con el de la poesía? Denis Diderot frente a un dilema del pensamiento ilustrado. Tópicos [online]. 2020, n.40, pp.97-131. ISSN 1666-485X.

Can arts and rational philosophy progress at the same time? Isn’t there any incompatibility between both ways of approaching reality, the rise of precision of the later implying a fall of intensity of the former? Questions like these had been an important point of concern for some of the most important philosophers of the French Enlightenment. In this paper, we focus on the answers given by Denis Diderot. First, we show that the editor of the Encyclopédie differentiates both areas of human production (art and philosophy) suggesting that the progress of reason brings, as an undesired consequence, the decadence of poetry. Second, we reconstruct some of his pictorical, poetological and dramaturgical ideas in order to understand his attemps to save the aesthetic power of arts for an enlightened century.

Keywords : art; philosophy; Diderot; reason; progress.

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