APERTURA E TRASFORMAZIONE DEL MONDO. PERCHE' LA LETTERATURA PUO' CAMBIARE LE COSE, E IL REALISMO FILOSOFICO NO

Abstract

Literature draws fundamentally on the imagination and thus has the specific ability to identify and highlight new possibilities of human experience, and to understand aspects of reality which a common and inattentive look cannot perceive. Thanks to this form of understanding and interpretation, literature provides a disclosure of the world, and creates the conditions to transform, emancipate or liberate it. Instead, the more naïve versions of philosophical realism, particularly Italian “new realism”, that are bound to direct sensistic perception and are hostile to literary experience, are imprisoned in the concept of the unamendability of reality, and thus are devoid of the conceptual means to conceive a transformation of the world.