Eduardo Nicol: entresijos de una poética fenomenológica

• Main Author: Josu Landa
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) 1999-12-01
• Series: Theoría
• Subjects: Agotamiento del discurso filosófico; Poesía
• Online Access: http://revistas.filos.unam.mx/index.php/theoria/article/view/230

Eduardo Nicol’s merit was to take on poetry as an unavoidable subject of his philosophic system. Likewise, he succeeded in his criticism —either outspoken or implied— upon Plato and Heidegger about the topic. However, his poetics demands a critical review. This article considers aspects such as Nicol’s slight acquaintance with the poetry of avant-garde, his recourse to “the poetry” in abstract as the starting point for reflection on the matter, the distance between certain propositions of phenomenology and his own analysis of the poetic, and the lack of harmony between the Nicolean thesis on being and the world of poetry. This is not an obstacle to the author’s reckoning that Nicol’s ideas about poetry open up a passable path for those who take an interest in resuming his thought.