The Poetics in its Aristotelian Context (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Destrée, Pierre; Munteanu, Dana L.; Heath, Malcolm

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume integrates aspects of the Poetics into the broader corpus of Aristotelian philosophy. It both deals with some old problems raised by the treatise, suggesting possible solutions through contextualization, and also identifies new ways in which poetic concepts could relate to Aristotelian philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000053449
• Artikelnr.: 58837982

Autorenporträt

Pierre Destrée is an Associate FNRS Research Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Louvain. He has published a French translation with commentary of the Poetics, and he is the author of numerous articles on the Presocratics, Plato and Aristotle. He is the coeditor of several books, most recently: with Penelope Murray, The Blackwell Companion to Ancient Aesthetics (2015); with Zina Giannopoulou, Plato: Symposium: A Critical Guide (2017); with Radcliffe Edmonds, Plato and the Power of Images (2017); and with Franco Trivigno, Laughter, Humor and Comedy in Ancient Philosophy (2019). Malcolm Heath is Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Leeds. His publications include Interpreting Classical Texts (2002), Menander: A Rhetor in Context (2004), and Ancient Philosophical Poetics (2012). He has also translated Aristotle's Poetics (1996). He is currently working on the place of poetry in Aristotle's philosophical anthropology, and on Longinus On Sublimity. Dana L. Munteanu is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at Ohio State University. She is the author of Tragic Pathos: Pity and Fear in Greek Philosophy and Tragedy (2012), the editor of Emotion, Genre and Gender in Classical Antiquity (2011) and co-editor with Zara Torlone and Dorota Dutsch of A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe (2017). Her scholarly publications have concentrated on Greek drama, philosophy and the reception of classics in opera and literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1. Aristotle's Aesthetics: Poetry and Other Arts -
Tradition and Innovation 1. Poetry and Biology: The Anatomy of Tragedy 2.
To Kalon and the Experience of Art 3. Aesthetic Emotions 4. Was Phthonos a
Comedic Emotion for Aristotle? On the Pleasure and Moral Psychology of
Laughter 5. Painting as an Aesthetic Paradigm Part 2. Poetics, Politics and
Ethics: Links and Independence 6. Family Bounds, Political Community, and
Tragic Pathos 7. Is there a Poetics in the Politics? 8. Varieties of
Characters: The Better, the Worse, and the Like 9. The Ethical Context of
Poetics 5: Comic Error and Lack of Self-Control Part 3. Language and
Content: Poetic Puzzles in Philosophical Context 10. Taxonomic Flexibility:
Metaphor, Genos, and Eidos 11. Poetry and Historia Afterword 12. Reading
the Poetics in Context