The Ancient Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy.

By:

Gould, Thomas [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Princeton legacy libraryPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (347 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781400861866
1400861861

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ancient Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy.DDC classification:

882.0109 20

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PA3131

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Contents:

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

Summary: 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.

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

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.

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