Ancient Philosophical Poetics - Malcolm Heath

Ancient Philosophical Poetics

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Buch | Softcover
204 Seiten
2012
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-16868-7 (ISBN)
24,90 inkl. MwSt
What is poetry? Why do human beings produce and consume it? What effects does it have on them? Can it give them insight into truth, or is it dangerously misleading? This book is a wide-ranging study of the very varied answers ancient philosophers gave to these questions.
What is poetry? Why do human beings produce and consume it? What effects does it have on them? Can it give them insight into truth, or is it dangerously misleading? This book is a wide-ranging study of the very varied answers which ancient philosophers gave to such questions. An extended discussion of Plato's Republic shows how the two discussions of poetry are integrated with each other and with the dialogue's central themes. Aristotle's Poetics is read in the context of his understanding of poetry as a natural human behaviour and an intrinsically valuable component of a good human life. Two chapters trace the development of the later Platonist tradition from Plutarch to Plotinus, Longinus and Porphyry, exploring its intellectual debts to Epicurean, allegorical and Stoic approaches to poetry. It will be essential reading for classicists as well as ancient philosophers and modern philosophers of art and aesthetics.

Malcolm Heath is Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Leeds. He has also taught at the Universities of Oxford and St Andrews. His publications include The Poetics of Greek Tragedy (1987), Political Comedy in Aristophanes (1987), Unity in Greek Poetics (1989), Hermogenes On Issues: Strategies of Argument in Later Greek Rhetoric (1995), Interpreting Classical Texts (2002) and Menander: A Rhetor in Context (2004), as well as many journal articles. He has translated Aristotle's Poetics for Penguin Classics (1996) and is currently working on a book on Aristotle and the anthropology of poetry.

1. Poetry: the roots of a problem; 2. A radical solution: Plato's Republic; 3. The natural history of poetry: Aristotle; 4. Ways to find truth in falsehood; 5. The marriage of Homer and Plato.

Reihe/Serie Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 228 mm
Gewicht 310 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-521-16868-6 / 0521168686
ISBN-13 978-0-521-16868-7 / 9780521168687
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