Abstract

CASTILLO MERLO, MARIANA. Philosophy and Literature: The Role of the Distinction between Physis and Tékhne in the Construction of Literary Genres. Rev. latinoam. filos. [online]. 2021, vol.47, n.2, pp.332-357. ISSN 1852-7353.  http://dx.doi.org/10.36446/rlf2021193.

In What is a literary genre? (1989), J.-M. Schaeffer accuses Aristotle of an initial ambiguity that would have conditioned the analysis of literary genres throughout its history. Taking into account some “literary” and “philosophical” readings of Poetics, in this paper I intend to point out the naturalistic-essentialist, historical-analytical and normative perspectives from which Aristotle carries out his project. For that purpose, I will evaluate, on the one hand, the scope of these perspectives in two particular moments of the Poetics (1447a-1448b and 1448b-1449a) and, on the other hand, the way in which each of them involve the Aristotelian distinction between physis and tékhne.

Keywords : Poetics; literary genres; interdisciplinary approach; her- meneutical problems.

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