The Blurred Boundaries between Philosophy and Literature in Modernity

This contribution explores the manifestation of the inextricable relationship between literature and philosophy in modernity. With initial reference to the Aeschylean tragedies as the original expression, in Western culture, of the unity of philosophy and literature – and therefore of literature as a voice of truth –, the presentation focuses on demonstrating how, through modernity and all the way to modernist and (even) postmodernist writers, the ideal for literature as an expression and contributor of truth persisted across time. The closing suggestion is that the blurred boundary between literature and philosophy with respect to truth has always been, and will continue to be, a fundamental characteristic of our culture.