Bases para una poética de la esperanza: Contenido proposicional y autonomía de la imagen

Resumo

The aim of the article is to present the bases for a poetics of hope, according to a three-phase strategy: first, we study the contemporary discussion of the concept of hope within the framework of analytical philosophy and, in particular, we discuss the main strengths and weaknesses of the standard account, the only conceptualization with a certain canonical rank. Once the main deficiencies of the model have been presented, we then analyse the status of mental images as a defining criterion in the definition of hope, in order to reveal the propositional nature of its mental content. For this we take as a basis Luc Bovens' work on the deficiencies of the standard approach. Once the separation between mental images attached to hope and discursive contents inherent to it has been resolved, we propose and justify the license to elaborate a poetics of hope in its basic guidelines.