Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Özne: Felsefe, Bilim, Sanat Yazıları, cilt.42, sa.2, ss.326-327, 2025 (Hakemli Dergi)
This article focuses on the question of whether poetry is a mental phenomenon or not with regards to the relationship between poetry, reality, and the problem of truth in literature. To explore this point, the first part of the article will address the intelligibility of poetic forms and after examining the relationship between poetry and reality, its contribution to the problem of literary truth will be analysed. Following an examination of the arguments of the analytic camp and the hermeneutic camp as they respond to the problem of literary truth, the solutions and difficulties each camp brings to this topic will be discussed. The claims that poetry’s mimetic nature complicates its relationship with reality which renders the identification of poetic truth impossible as propounded by the analytic perspective and poetic truth is possible because poetry is the object of a secularised theology as propounded by the hermeneutic perspective will be explored. Building on these two points and through a careful analysis of the arguments of both camps, this article will argue that poetic truth is possible although a new perspective will be introduced that transcends the arguments of either side. In this context, it will be argued that poetry is a mental event with reference Ted Cohen’s “talent for metaphor” and Donald Davidson’s “the anomalousness of the mental.” Thus, it will be suggested that poetry proposes a sui generis system of propositional truth which goes both against science and philosophy’s sense of the phrase and the hermeneutic scheme’s revelatory use of it. In this sense, it will be construed that poetry is a mental anomaly which allows poetry to establish its own possibilistic ontology and epistemology.