A filosofia do método: do processo de criação poética à descoberta da verdade

Abstract

The interrelation between poetry and philosophy is the basis that supports the connection between "method" and "truth", with which the present work is concerned, under the point of view of the creative process. The objective of the research is to know if the poetical method can become a philosophy, the goal of which would be to discover and disseminate a didactic truth. In order to answer this question the philosopher Alain Badiou and the poet Mário Faustino were made to converse, with the intention of arriving at a common ground between several different areas of human knowledge, which in essence converge towards one single experience: the experience of thought. With this work we attempted to explore, throughout the four chapters, the main aspects related to the study of method and truth in poetry, to which: the indexes of tendency and hazard that guide the creative process, the laws of the poet and his particular way to deal with reality, the connection between man and world, through words, and, finally, the reciprocity between poetic thought and the universality of art. The investigation of these issues made use of Faustino´s perceptive-expressional process and of Badiou´s idea of a singular truth, immanent to art. Other conceptual elements that were important to this work were the poet´s mechanisms of perception and rational faculties, and the donation of the object, according to Faustino´s method, and the influence of the undetermined at the beginning of an artistic configuration, besides the potency of poetic truth, according to Badiou´s theory. The intention of this work was to accomplish an enlightening interdisciplinarity between thought and language that could contribute to the studies of literary theory with a new perspective on the creative method, thus uniting philosophy to art