The aim of this paper is to present the philosophical figure of a Norwegian philosopher and writer, creator of biosophy, Peter Wessel Zapffe (1899–1990), and to investigate the origins of his notion of tragedy (tragic experience) which he introduces in his magnum opus Om det tragiske (1941). I attempt to do so by searching its roots in antique theory of tragedy introduced by Aristotle, especially on the pages of Poetics , to which Zapffe himself often refers to. A study of how Zapffe “read” and understood Aristotle’s Poetics , a classical piece for the study of tragedy and tragic experience, seems essential for establishing the roots and foundations of his own vision of tragedy and its functions, finally shifting from the purely literary sphere to the biosophical level of human existence. In this paper I will focus mainly on the notion and art of mimesis , laying the basis for further detailed studies of Zapffe’s biosophical analysis of the subject.

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在亚里士多德的《诗学》中研究彼得·韦塞尔·扎普夫（Peter Wessel Zapffe）的悲剧概念的起源：模仿事件

本文的目的是介绍一个挪威哲学家和哲学家，传记生物学的创造者彼得·韦塞尔·扎普夫（Peter Wessel Zapffe，1899–1990）的哲学人物，并研究他在其悲剧经历中引入的悲剧概念的起源。巨著Om det tragiske（1941）。我试图通过探究其起源于亚里斯多德所提出的古董悲剧理论，尤其是扎普夫本人经常提到的诗学页面上。研究扎普夫如何“阅读”并理解关于悲剧和悲剧经历的经典著作亚里士多德的诗学，对于确立他自己的悲剧观及其功能的根源和基础，最终从纯粹的文学领域转变而言，这似乎是必不可少的。到人类生存的生物哲学层面。