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John Keats define ‘negative capability’ como «quando alguém é capaz de habitar incertezas,
mistérios e dúvidas, sem qualquer irritação atrás de factos e da razão». A ‘negative capability’
é crucial na compreensão da criação e da poesia como lugares da incerteza, da dissolução
identitária e da ausência de resposta. A arte é, assim, um modo de falarmos com o mistério,
com o mutismo do mundo natural e com o cepticismo acerca da existência do outro, assinalando
a nossa necessidade de confirmação, o poder da imaginação e a sedução do abismo e
da dúvida. É, neste sentido, muito parecida com as orações que, nas palavras de Gonçalo M.
Tavares, sendo «palavras viradas diretamente para o Mistério, [...] são a parte mais débil do
trabalho humano por excelência que é compreender». O artigo pretende desenvolver a ideia
deste lugar frágil em que a necessidade de compreensão do mundo e do outro nos deixa.
ABSTRACT -John Keats defines ‘negative capability’ as “being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason”. ‘Negative capability’ is crucial in understanding creation and poetry as places of uncertainty, identity dissolution and lack of response. Art is, therefore, a way of talking to the mystery, the muteness of the natural world and the skepticism about the existence of the other, pointing out our need for confirmation, the power of imagination and the seduction of the abyss and doubt. In this sense, it is very similar to the prayers that, in the words of Gonçalo M. Tavares, being «words turned directly to the Mystery, [...] are the weakest part of the human work par excellence, which is that of understanding». The article intends to develop the idea of this fragile place where the need to understand the world and the other leaves us.
ABSTRACT -John Keats defines ‘negative capability’ as “being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason”. ‘Negative capability’ is crucial in understanding creation and poetry as places of uncertainty, identity dissolution and lack of response. Art is, therefore, a way of talking to the mystery, the muteness of the natural world and the skepticism about the existence of the other, pointing out our need for confirmation, the power of imagination and the seduction of the abyss and doubt. In this sense, it is very similar to the prayers that, in the words of Gonçalo M. Tavares, being «words turned directly to the Mystery, [...] are the weakest part of the human work par excellence, which is that of understanding». The article intends to develop the idea of this fragile place where the need to understand the world and the other leaves us.
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Pessoas Coisas Personificação Fé Interpretação Ética Persons Things Personification Faith Interpretation Ethics
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IELT – Instituto de Literatura e Tradição. Unidade de Investigação da UNL – FCSH