Abstract
This article aims at defining Hardy’s position on Materialism and Idealism as it informs the relation to realism in his novels, and more generally his poetic approach to novel writing. We try to situate Hardy’s appraisal of the opposition between science and literature. The development of intermediary notions, such as “crisis” and “imaginative reason”, his conception of the close links existing between “classicism” end “uncertainty” as well as the positive resources of scepticism eventually define Hardy’s poetic originality and ethical audacity.
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