Tragic pathos : pity and fear in Greek philosophy and tragedy /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Munteanu, Dana LaCourse, 1972- (συγγραφέας)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2012.
• Θέματα: Αισχύλος, > 525-456; Σοφοκλής, > 496-406; Ευριπίδης, > 480-406; Ελληνικό δράμα (Τραγωδία) > Ιστορία και κριτική; Πάθος στη λογοτεχνία; Φόβος στη λογοτεχνία; Συναισθήματα (Φιλοσοφία); Συναισθήματα στη λογοτεχνία

 Scholars have often focused on understanding Aristotleβ€sss poetic theory, and particularly the concept of catharsis in the Poetics, as a response to Platoβ€sss 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. 

 Machine generated contents note: 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 β€sstheoristβ€ss 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.