2008
Cairn
Jean-Marie Valentin, « Brecht et Aristote – mais quel Aristote ? », Études Germaniques, ID : 10670/1.zw0qyi
The notions of the « Aristotelian » and the « non-Aristotelian » appear regularly in Brecht’s theoretical texts. Nowadays they are used in a global, non critical and simplifying way, and therefore they must be scrutinized. This article is a philological and historical examination of these questions in the light of the Poetics and its reception in Western literatures since the Renaissance. Brecht uses this liminal text to build and present his own system didactically within this context. The principle of an increasingly radical opposition is the foundations of his defining process. It creates a perspective that is at the same time antireligious (materialistic), philosophical (anti-metaphysical), aesthetic (for the active role of the spectator and against empathy) and social (“revolutionary” in the sense of “producing change”).