The Ancient Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry

✍ Scribed by Raymond Barfield

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 289
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

From its beginnings, philosophy's language, concepts, and imaginative growth have been heavily influenced by poetry and poets. Drawing on the work of a wide range of thinkers throughout the history of western philosophy, Raymond Barfield explores the pervasiveness of poetry's impact on philosophy and, conversely, how philosophy has sometimes resisted or denied poetry's influence. Although some thinkers, like Giambatista Vico and Nietzsche, praised the wisdom of poets, and saw poetry and philosophy as mutually beneficial pursuits, others resented, diminished or eliminated the importance of poetry in philosophy. Beginning with the famous the passage in Plato's Republic in which Socrates exiles the poets from the city, this book traces the history of the ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry through the works of thinkers in the Western tradition ranging from Plato to the work of the contemporary thinker Mikhail Bakhtin. This new perspective provides an illuminating way of reading philosophy that can be extended and applied to other philosophers.

✦ Table of Contents

The Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry (2011)......Page 1
ISBN: 9781107000322......Page 5
--> Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
1 - Socrates, Plato, and the Invention of the Ancient Quarrel......Page 21
2 - Aristotle, Poetry, and Ethics......Page 43
3 - Plotinus, Augustine, and Strange Sweetness......Page 63
4 - Boethius, Dionysius, and the Forms......Page 97
5 - Thomas and Some Thomists......Page 117
6 - Vico’s New Science......Page 136
7 - Kant and His Students on the Genius of Nature......Page 159
8 - Hegel and the Owl of Minerva......Page 179
9 - Kierkegaard: A Poet, Alas......Page 200
10 - Dilthey: Poetry and the Escape from Metaphysics......Page 221
11 - Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Saving Power of Poetry......Page 237
12 - Mikhail Bakhtin and Novelistic Consciousness......Page 265
Index......Page 284