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 for the two emotions a different purpose, mode of presentation and, to a degree, understanding. This book reassesses expressions of the emotions within different tragedies and explores emotional responses to and discussions of the tragedies by contemporary philosophers,…mehr
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 for the two emotions a different purpose, mode of presentation and, to a degree, understanding. 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.
Dana Munteanu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Greek and Latin at Ohio State University. She has published articles on Aristotle, Greek drama and the reception of classics in modern literature and in opera, as well as editing a forthcoming collection of essays on emotion, gender and genre in antiquity. Her future research projects include a monograph on 'staged death' in Greek drama and an interdisciplinary project on the ethics of aesthetics.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part I. Theoretical Views about Pity and Fear as Aesthetic Emotions: 1. Drama and the emotions: an Indo-European connection? 2. Gorgias: a strange trio, the poetic emotions 3. Plato: from reality to tragedy and back 4. Aristotle: the first 'theorist' of the aesthetic emotions Part II. Pity and Fear within Tragedies: 5. An introduction 6. Aeschylus: Persians 7. Prometheus Bound 8. Sophocles: Ajax 9. Euripides: Orestes Appendix: catharsis and the emotions in the definition of tragedy in the Poetics.
Introduction Part I. Theoretical Views about Pity and Fear as Aesthetic Emotions: 1. Drama and the emotions: an Indo-European connection? 2. Gorgias: a strange trio, the poetic emotions 3. Plato: from reality to tragedy and back 4. Aristotle: the first 'theorist' of the aesthetic emotions Part II. Pity and Fear within Tragedies: 5. An introduction 6. Aeschylus: Persians 7. Prometheus Bound 8. Sophocles: Ajax 9. Euripides: Orestes Appendix: catharsis and the emotions in the definition of tragedy in the Poetics.
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