The Ancient Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy

✍ Scribed by Gould, Thomas

Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 347
Series: Princeton legacy library
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Affecting audiences with depictions of suffering and injustice is a key function of tragedy, and yet it has long been viewed by philosophers as a dubious enterprise. In this book Thomas Gould uses both historical and theoretical approaches to explore tragedy and its power to gratify readers and audiences. He takes as his starting point Plato's moral and psychological objections to tragedy, and the conflict he Read more...

Abstract: Affecting audiences with depictions of suffering and injustice is a key function of tragedy, and yet it has long been viewed by philosophers as a dubious enterprise. In this book Thomas Gould uses both historical and theoretical approaches to explore tragedy and its power to gratify readers and audiences. He takes as his starting point Plato's moral and psychological objections to tragedy, and the conflict he recognized between ""poetry""--The exploitation of our yearning to see ourselves as victims--and ""philosophy""--the insistence that all good people are happy. Plato's objections to tr

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover
Contents
Part I: The Ancient Quarrel
1. ""Philosophy"" in Socratism.

✦ Subjects

Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. Poetics -- History -- To 1500. Suffering in literature. Sympathy in literature. Literature -- Philosophy. Pathos in literature. Philosophy, Ancient. DRAMA -- Ancient & Classical. DRAMA -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.

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