Jeffrey Barnouw

Odysseus, Hero of Practical Intelligence

Deliberation and Signs in Homer's Odyssey

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From the Stoics, there follows a psychological tradition leading, through Hobbes and Leibniz, to Peirce and Dewey. These thinkers are drawn on to show the significance of the conception of thinking first articulated in the Odyssey. Homer's work inaugurates an approach that has provoked philosophical conflict persisting into the present, and opposition to pragmatism and Pragmatism can be discerned in prominent critiques of Homer and his hero which are analyzed and countered in this study.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9780761830269
• ISBN-10: 076183026X
• Artikelnr.: 21681201

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Barnouw

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 Part I: The Heart of Intelligence: Anticipating Consequences: In
medias res: Two Critical Passages; Wily Yet Single-Minded; Recklessness vs.
Consideration; Metis as Thinking Ahead and Then Back; Noos as Purpose in
Odysseus and Zeus
Chapter 4 Part II: The Contest of Philosophies: Plato and Chrysippus Claim
Homer; Chrysippus's Conception of Human Motivation; Discourse and Division
Within the Homeric Self; 'Mind'less Pragmatic Odysseus: Snell; German
Pragmatisms: Leibniz and Kant; German P
Chapter 5 Part III: Signs and Identity: Cognition and Recognition:
Reconnaissance and Recognition; Homer's 'sema' and the Aristotelian and
Stoic 'semeion'; More Shifts in the Foundation of Signs; Signs in Hobbes'
'Discursion' and 'Prudence'; The Scar as Sign:
Chapter 6 Appendix: Writing and Oral Tradition Interact in Homer
Chapter 7 Bibliography
Chapter 8 Index of Names
Chapter 9 Index of Concepts