Tragic Pleasure from Homer to Plato
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- Author: Rana Saadi Liebert, Bard College, New York
- Date Published: August 2021
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316635698
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This book offers a resolution of the paradox posed by the pleasure of tragedy by returning to its earliest articulations in archaic Greek poetry and its subsequent emergence as a philosophical problem in Plato's Republic. Socrates' claim that tragic poetry satisfies our 'hunger for tears' hearkens back to archaic conceptions of both poetry and mourning that suggest a common source of pleasure in the human appetite for heightened forms of emotional distress. By unearthing a psychosomatic model of aesthetic engagement implicit in archaic poetry and philosophically elaborated by Plato, this volume not only sheds new light on the Republic's notorious indictment of poetry, but also identifies rationally and ethically disinterested sources of value in our pursuit of aesthetic states. In doing so the book resolves an intractable paradox in aesthetic theory and human psychology: the appeal of painful emotions.
Read more- Presents a new solution to an unresolved problem in aesthetic theory, using archaic poetry and philosophy to contribute to modern debates about aesthetics
- Proposes a new interpretation of Plato's famous critique of poetry and the arts, improving our understanding of the foundations for his hostility
- Offers a new, psychosomatic model of aesthetic engagement based on ancient sources, providing a corrective to cognitively oriented approaches to aesthetic value
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- Date Published: August 2021
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316635698
- length: 228 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 150 x 10 mm
- weight: 0.33kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction: the pleasure of tragedy
1. The taste of archaic poetry
2. Emotional satisfaction in archaic poetry
3. Tragic pleasure in Plato's Republic
Epilogue: poetry and privacy: towards an Aristotelian defense of poetry and a Platonic alternative.
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