Poesía y verdad

Roger Scruton; Jorge Roaro

doi:10.5281/zenodo.3575276

Roger Scruton University of Oxford, UK
Jorge Roaro Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3575276

Keywords: Heidegger, Art, Metaphor, Ontology, Poetic Language

Abstract

The poetic language responds to needs, rules and circumstances very different from those of ordinary everyday language or to technical languages, such as logic and science; however, notions of truth and falsehood can also be established in poetry. According to Heidegger, the poetic truth rests on the ability of poetry to reveal the presence that things have for themselves, regardless of any use that our daily practice can give them. This paper tests the previous assumption, and reflects on the type of truth that poetry can reveal, and which is, instead, beyond the reach of other types of languages.

Author Biographies

Roger Scruton, University of Oxford, UK

Sir Roger Scruton is a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and University of Buckingham, United Kingdom. PhD in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. His main interests in philosophy are centred on aesthetics, philosophy of music and political philosophy. The long list of books he has published includes Beauty: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2011); The Face of God (Continuum, 2012); The Soul of the World (Princeton University Press, 2014); Music as an Art (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2018).

Jorge Roaro, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

Jorge Roaro obtained his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Salamanca with a Thesis about the philosophical conception of the just war in the thought of Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda. His principal areas of interest are the Spanish Humanism at the time of the Renaissance, the humanist critique of culture, the philosophy and history of art, the philosophy of language, the relation between literature and philosophy, the reflection about the philosophical problems of war and dinosaurs. He is co-editor of the philosophical review Disputatio

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