The Ancient Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy / / Thomas Gould.
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 audi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1990 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I. THE ANCIENT QUARREL
- 1. "Philosophy" in Socratism
- 2. Socratism in Plato
- 3. Socratism in Aristotle
- 4. Plato's First Attack: Republic II
- 5. Pathos in Greek Religion
- 6. Plato's Second Attack: Republic X
- 7. Pathos in Greek Tragedy
- 9. Plato, Aristotle, and the "Shudder"
- 10. Pathos, pathos, passion, and Passion
- 11. The Quarrel Today
- 12. Two Case Histories
- 13. Plato/Aristotle and Freud/Jung
- PART II: PATHOS AND THE APPEAL OF TRAGEDY
- 14. Justice and Injustice in Homer
- 15. Justice and Injustice in the Oresteia
- 16. Aeschylus the Eleusinian
- 17. Pathos and the "Shudder" in Sophocles
- 18. The Anger of the Gods and Heroes
- 19. Sophocles or Socrates?
- 20. Euripides against the Myths
- 21. Our Euripides
- PART III: HAVING IT BOTH WAYS
- 22. Was Plato Serious?
- 23. The True Dionysus
- 24. The Trouble with Psychological Explanations
- 25. The Trouble with Aristotle's Alternative
- 26. The Nature of Tragedy
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX