Tragic pathos : pity and fear in Greek philosophy and tragedy /
"Scholars have often focused on understanding Aristotle's poetic theory, and particularly the concept of catharsis in the Poetics, as a response to Plato's critique of pity in the Republic. However, this book shows that, while Greek thinkers all acknowledge pity and some form of fear...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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Colección: | Cambridge books online.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "Scholars have often focused on understanding Aristotle's poetic theory, and particularly the concept of catharsis in the Poetics, as a response to Plato's critique of pity in the Republic. However, this book shows that, while Greek thinkers all acknowledge pity and some form of fear as responses to tragedy, each assumes a different purpose for the two emotions and mode of presentation and, to a degree, understanding of them. This book reassesses expressions of the emotions within different tragedies and explores emotional responses to and discussions of the tragedies by contemporary philosophers, providing insights into the ethical and social implications of the emotions"-- |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 278 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-274) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781139190329 1139190326 9781139187732 1139187732 9781139028257 1139028251 1283378469 9781283378468 |