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| Author(s): |
Henrique Piccinato Xavier
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2013-10-04 |
| Examining board members: |
Marilena de Souza Chaui;
Fernando Dias Andrade;
Carlos Alberto Fajardo;
Joao Adolfo Hansen;
Homero Silveira Santiago
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| Advisor: | Marilena de Souza Chaui |
| Abstract | |
Centred on an idea of materialistic immanence, the thesis aims to outline an aesthetic \"system\" in opposition to the romantic and idealistic aesthetic systems (confronting mainly with aesthetic notions from Platonism and German idealism, but also with some notions from M. Heidegger). In the course of the thesis it is central to discuss about the possibility of thinking through images and the implications for philosophical, political and historical need to mix up science with poetry. The work, conceived regarding James Joyce\'s Ulysses, aims to understand what the conceptions of history, philosophy and politics can learn from the experience of literature, for this, the thesis analyses the works of Homer, Plato, G. Vico, Th. Adorno and B. Spino- za, in addition to these authors, there is a strong presence of K. Marx and S. Beckett. The work unfolds from the 12th chapter of Ulysses, where Bloom confronts the citi- zen. This confrontation in a Dublin pub is an anachronic \"metempsychosis\" of the confrontation between Odysseus and Polyphemus in the Homeric cave present in the Odyssey. The thesis examines five historical \"reincarnations\" of this cavernous confrontation, following the order of the chapters, we have: ch. I - Joyce\'s Ulysses; ch. II - Dialectic of Enlightenment, especially \'Odysseus or Myth and Enlightenment\' by Adorno and Horkheimer; ch. III - New Science, especially \'The discovery of the True Homer\' by Giambattista Vico; ch. IV - Homers Odyssey interpreted through the cunning intelligence of the Greek Métis; ch V - Joyce\'s Ulysses, especially chap. XII of the novel. The conclusion of the work aims to retrace the course of the thesis demonstrating how an idea of materialistic immanence based on the philosophy of Spinoza was implicitly the fundament of our Aesthetics of Immanence. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 09/11613-8 - For an aesthetics of immanence - The Spinosist nuance for a politics of the sensible in the historicity of the work of art |
| Grantee: | Henrique Piccinato Xavier |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |