Ricerc@Sapienza

Through a study of the text that perhaps best interpreted the
meaning of poetic Greek art from the Classic age – namely Aristotle’s
Poetics, which seems to give to the poetic art a «dialectical
» value – the article aims to highlight the differences between
the way in which antiquity looked at the question of poiesis,
closely associating it with a cognitive and practical dimension,
and the way in which modern aesthetics looked at it, separating
the dimension of art, beauty and sensibility, from knowledge and
the practical life.