“In accordance with the laws of beauty”: elevation and evolution in a sonnet by Antero de Quental
This study examines the sonnet “Evolução” (1886), wrote by the Portuguese poet Antero de Quental, in regards to the moment of its making, when the theme of evolution had not only pressured the philosophical systems, religious postulates and social conventions, but had already received a political-ph...
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I28-R257-article-107442021-12-13T18:32:20Z “In accordance with the laws of beauty”: elevation and evolution in a sonnet by Antero de Quental “Segundo as leis da beleza”: evolução e elevação em um soneto de Antero de Quental de Oliveira, André Luis dos Reis Corrêa, Ana Laura Antero de Quental evolution artistic elevation historical and material production Antero de Quental evolução artística produção material e histórica This study examines the sonnet “Evolução” (1886), wrote by the Portuguese poet Antero de Quental, in regards to the moment of its making, when the theme of evolution had not only pressured the philosophical systems, religious postulates and social conventions, but had already received a political-philosophical interpretation which would become hegemonic in the second half of the 19th Century: Social Darwinism. Seen within this determined configuration, this sonnet, as well as many others found in Quental’s works, seems to take the opposite path of such naturalist tendency. Here we investigate the logic behind such dissonance between the poem and its time, focusing on the hypothesis that the theme of evolution in Antero’s sonnet is artistically composed “in accordance with the laws of beauty” (Marx, 2004) and, therefore, escapes idealism and naturalism and, thus, elevates evolution to its real dimension in history. Neste artigo, analisamos o soneto “Evolução” (1886), do poeta português Antero de Quental, considerando o momento de sua produção, quando o tema da evolução não só já havia posto à prova sistemas filosóficos, postulados religiosos e convenções sociais, como já recebera uma interpretação político-filosófica que se tornara hegemônica na segunda metade do século XIX, o darwinismo social. Nessa configuração determinada, o soneto aqui analisado, assim como muitos outros da obra de Quental, parece caminhar na direção contrária a essa tendência naturalista. Investigamos aqui as razões para tal dissonância entre o poema e sua época, apostando na hipótese de que o tema da evolução, no soneto de Antero, é composto artisticamente “segundo as leis da beleza” (Marx, 2004) e, por essa razão, escapa do idealismo e do naturalismo, elevando a evolução a sua real dimensão histórica. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires 2021-10-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf text/html http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/interlitteras/article/view/10744 10.34096/interlitteras.n3.10744 Inter Litteras; Núm. 3 (2021); 97-115 2683-9695 0328-8935 spa http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/interlitteras/article/view/10744/9466 http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/interlitteras/article/view/10744/9484 |
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This study examines the sonnet “Evolução” (1886), wrote by the Portuguese poet Antero de Quental, in regards to the moment of its making, when the theme of evolution had not only pressured the philosophical systems, religious postulates and social conventions, but had already received a political-philosophical interpretation which would become hegemonic in the second half of the 19th Century: Social Darwinism. Seen within this determined configuration, this sonnet, as well as many others found in Quental’s works, seems to take the opposite path of such naturalist tendency. Here we investigate the logic behind such dissonance between the poem and its time, focusing on the hypothesis that the theme of evolution in Antero’s sonnet is artistically composed “in accordance with the laws of beauty” (Marx, 2004) and, therefore, escapes idealism and naturalism and, thus, elevates evolution to its real dimension in history. |
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