This article suggests the idea of a “creative synthesis” to describe the complex relationship between literature and knowledge. The first part of the article summarizes and discusses some paradigmatic positions on this problem, emphasizing literature’s capacity to articulate non-propositional experiences. Leggi tutto »
In this paper I propose to consider synthesis as the starting point of knowledge, instead of the common perception that consider synthesis as the arrival compromise between a series of data. In doing this, I took the poetical experience – specially T.S. Eliot’s experience and his former studies of philosophy – as a paradigm of this process, Leggi tutto »
“Work” is usually understood as an applicative or derivative field of some more fundamental theoretical philosophy. The first task of this paper is to show that this conception is due to a Kantian heritage that never got rid of the distinction between theory and practice because it never questioned the analytic/synthetic distinction proposed by the German thinker. Leggi tutto »