Poetic Reason and intellection through beauty: the transdisciplinarity of the word

Abstract

The purpose of this discussion is to recover the notion of transdisciplinarity as a possible structural link between philosophy and literature, establishing certain epistemological coordinates that rest on the idea of poetic reason by the Spanish philosopher Maria Zambrano, as well as in the invitation to intellection through beauty by the Argentinean writer Leopoldo Marechal. Therefore, first, we would like to briefly introduce the notion of transdisciplinarity, following the definitions of Basarab Nicolescu, and then approach the poetic word as a condition of possibility of the knowledge of reality. From there, we will explain the most characteristic features of the concept of poetic reason and intellection through beauty, to open up a dialogic space between them and, thus, propose a transdisciplinary nature of the poetic word in our path to knowledge.