The creative process of Fernando Pessoa: the dialogue with positivism

• Autor(a) principal: Gomes, Álvaro Cardoso
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Guaranha, Manoel Francisco
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Letras de Hoje (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/fale/article/view/32193
• topic: Portuguese Literature. Heteronymic process. Auguste Comte. Theory of Knowledge.; Literatura Portuguesa. Proceso de los heterónimos. Auguste Comte. Teoría del Conocimiento.; Literatura Portuguesa. Processo heteronímico. Auguste Comte. Teoria do Conhecimento.

This article aims to study the process of creation of Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) from an interdisciplinary vision that articulates Literature, Philosophy, History and Social Sciences to highlight the dialogue of the Portuguese poet with the Positivism of Auguste Comte (1798-1857), notably in respect of the Theory of Knowledge: while Comte invests in unity, Pessoa’s creative process points to diversity as a way of understanding phenomena. In part, we believe that this is due to the perspective of the time in which Pessoa lived, to the influences of the Decadentism of the late nineteenth century, and to the ideas of Modernity that reshaped the twentieth-century ways of thinking.