Schlegel Pós-estruturalista, Foucault romântico

Abstract

This article presents a comparative analysis of the concepts of literature in the    works    of Friedrich Schlegel    and    Foucault,    observing    possible connections, from the recurrence of problems to the philosophical method. Thus, the question “what is literature?”, already present in the first German Romanticism,  stands  as  a  starting  point  to  think  about  the  vision  of  both authors, since  the  question  is related to the  idea  of  incompleteness of  the literary,   as   a   concept   in   continuous   development.   In   this   sense,   the schlegelian  proposition  of  romantic  irony,  which  predicts  the  movement wherewith literature would make a turn to itself, founds resonance with the foucaultian  approach,  if  the  aforementioned  question  is  to  be  understood not as an exclusive result of the critic’s or the philosopher’s reasoning, but as opened   in   the   interior   of   literature   itself.   Without   disregarding   the differences  between  both  thinkers,  this  work  yet  intends  to  demonstratethat these reflections are linked to the problem of the subject asthe one who has sovereign control over language and knowledge.