"La mimesis aristotélica más allá de los límites de la Poética"

SUÑOL, VIVIANA

Phaos, Revista de Estudos Clássicos

UNICAMP/ INSTITUTO DE ESTUDOS DA LINGUAGEM

Lugar: Campinas; Año: 2006 vol. 5 p. 107 - 126

1676-3076

From Renaissance on, Aristotelian mimesis had exerted its influence mainly through the principle that “arts imitates nature”. This principle was interpreted in different and multiple ways reaching its most categorical rejection with nineteenth-century aestheticism. What it is surprising is that this principle was never explicitly enunciated in the Poetics as subject of the téchne poietiké, although is frequently mentioned in different treatises devoted to the study of natural history, e.g. Meteor., Phys., Protr. In the first part of this paper, I present a brief examination of some passages that I believe that give evidence of the analogical value that mimetic vocabulary usually has in Aristotle. Then, in the second part I analyze the different formulations of the principle in the corpus in order to elucidate the complex relation of analogy and supplementation between the sphere of art and that of nature. My attempt contradicts Halliwell` s interpretation (1999 & 2002), for whom is imperative to distinguish the wider uses of the term from the proper artistic signification of mimesis in Aristotle’s Poetics. KEY TERMS: Aristotle- mimesis- art- nature-analogy-supplementation