The Ancient Quarrel Between Philosophy And Poetry

Author : Raymond Barfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139497091

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The Ancient Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry by Raymond Barfield Pdf

From its beginnings, philosophy's language, concepts and imaginative growth have been heavily influenced by poetry and poets. Drawing on the work of a wide range of thinkers throughout the history of Western philosophy, Raymond Barfield explores the pervasiveness of poetry's impact on philosophy and, conversely, how philosophy has sometimes resisted or denied poetry's influence. Although some thinkers, like Giambatista Vico and Nietzsche, praised the wisdom of poets, and saw poetry and philosophy as mutually beneficial pursuits, others resented, diminished or eliminated the importance of poetry in philosophy. Beginning with the famous passage in Plato's Republic in which Socrates exiles the poets from the city, this book traces the history of the ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry through the works of thinkers in the Western tradition ranging from Plato to the work of the contemporary thinker Mikhail Bakhtin.

Author : Stanley Rosen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317960812

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The Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry by Stanley Rosen Pdf

Now available in paperback, The Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry focuses on the theoretical and practical suppositions of the long-standing conflict between philosophy and poetry. Stanley Rosen--one of the leading Plato scholars of our day--examines philosophical activity, questioning whether technical philosophy is a species of poetry, a political program, an interpretation of human existence according to the ideas of 19th and 20th-century thinkers, or a contemplation of beings and Being.

Author : Susan B. Levin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000-12-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198031116

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The Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry Revisited by Susan B. Levin Pdf

In this study, Levin explores Plato's engagement with the Greek literary tradition in his treatment of key linguistic issues. This investigation, conjoined with a new interpretation of the Republic's familiar critique of poets, supports the view that Plato's work represents a valuable precedent for contemporary reflections on ways in which philosophy might benefit from appeals to literature.

Author : Pierre Destrée,Fritz-Gregor Herrmann
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004201835

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Plato and the Poets by Pierre Destrée,Fritz-Gregor Herrmann Pdf

The nineteen essays presented here aim to illuminate the ways poetry and the poets are discussed by Plato throughout his writing career. As well as throwing new light on old topics, such as mimesis and poetic inspiration, the volume introduces fresh approaches to Plato’s philosophy of poetry and literature.

Author : Thomas Gould
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781400861866

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The Ancient Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy by Thomas Gould Pdf

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 tragedy are shown to be an essential feature of Socratic rationalism and to constitute a formidable challenge even today. Gould makes a case for the rightness and psychological necessity of violence and suffering in literature, art, and religion, but he distinguishes between depictions of violence that elicit sympathy only for the victims and those that cause us to sympathize entirely with the perpetrators. It is chiefly the former, Gould argues, that fuel our responses not only to true tragedy but also to religious myths and critical displays of political rage. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Ranjan Ghosh
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231547246

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Philosophy and Poetry by Ranjan Ghosh Pdf

Ever since Plato’s Socrates exiled the poets from the ideal city in The Republic, Western thought has insisted on a strict demarcation between philosophy and poetry. Yet might their long-standing quarrel hide deeper affinities? This book explores the distinctive ways in which twentieth-century and contemporary continental thinkers have engaged with poetry and its contribution to philosophical meaning making, challenging us to rethink how philosophy has been changed through its encounters with poetry. In wide-ranging reflections on thinkers such as Heidegger, Gadamer, Arendt, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze, Irigaray, Badiou, Kristeva, and Agamben, among others, distinguished contributors consider how different philosophers encountered the force and intensity of poetry and the negotiations that took place as they sought resolutions of the quarrel. Instead of a clash between competing worldviews, they figured the relationship between philosophy and poetry as one of productive mutuality, leading toward new modes of thinking and understanding. Spanning a range of issues with nuance and rigor, this compelling and comprehensive book opens new possibilities for philosophical poetry and the poetics of philosophy.

Author : John Burns,Matthew C. Flamm,William J. Gahan,Stephanie Quinn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000169263

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The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy by John Burns,Matthew C. Flamm,William J. Gahan,Stephanie Quinn Pdf

The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy: Perspectives Across the Humanities is an interdisciplinary study of the abiding quarrel to which poet-philosopher Plato referred centuries ago in the Republic. The book presents eight chapters by four humanities scholars that historically contextualize and cross-interpret aspects of the quarrel in question. The authors share the view that although poets and philosophers continually quarrel, a harmonious union between the two groups is achievable in a manner promising application to a variety of contemporary cultural-political and aesthetic debates, all of which have implications for the current status of the humanities.

Author : Ramona Naddaff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226567273

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Exiling the Poets by Ramona Naddaff Pdf

The question of why Plato censored poetry in his Republic has bedeviled scholars for centuries. In Exiling the Poets, Ramona A. Naddaff offers a strikingly original interpretation of this ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy. Underscoring not only the repressive but also the productive dimension of literary censorship, Naddaff brings to light Plato's fundamental ambivalence about the value of poetic discourse in philosophical investigation. Censorship, Nadaff argues, is not merely a mechanism of silencing but also provokes new ways of speaking about controversial and crucial cultural and artistic events. It functions philosophically in the Republic to subvert Plato's most crucial arguments about politics, epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics. Naddaff develops this stunning argument through an extraordinary reading of Plato's work. In books 2 and 3, the first censorship of poetry, she finds that Plato constitutes the poet as a rival with whom the philosopher must vie agonistically. In other words, philosophy does not replace poetry, as most commentators have suggested; rather, the philosopher becomes a worthy and ultimately victorious poetic competitor. In book 10's second censorship, Plato exiles the poets as a mode of self-subversion, rethinking and revising his theory of mimesis, of the immortality of the soul, and, most important, the first censorship of poetry. Finally, in a subtle and sophisticated analysis of the myth of Er, Naddaff explains how Plato himself censors his own censorships of poetry, thus producing the unexpected result of a poetically animated and open-ended dialectical philosophy.

Author : Mark Edmundson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1995-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521485320

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Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida by Mark Edmundson Pdf

This timely book argues that the institutionalisation of literary theory, particularly within American and British academic circles, has led to a sterility of thought which ignores the special character of literary art. Mark Edmundson traces the origins of this tendency to the ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry, in which Plato took the side of philosophy; and he shows how the work of modern theorists - Foucault, Derrida, de Man and Bloom - exhibits similar drives to subsume poetic art into some 'higher' kind of thought. Challenging and controversial, this book should be read by all teachers of literature and of theory, and by anyone concerned about the future of institutionalised literary studies.

Author : Richard Kraut
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1992-10-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521436109

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The Cambridge Companion to Plato by Richard Kraut Pdf

Fourteen new essays discuss Plato's views about knowledge, reality, mathematics, politics, ethics, love, poetry, and religion in a convenient, accessible guide that analyzes the intellectual and social background of his thought as well.

Author : James M. Ambury,Tushar Irani,Kathleen Wallace
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781119746898

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Philosophy as a Way of Life by James M. Ambury,Tushar Irani,Kathleen Wallace Pdf

In the ancient world, philosophy was understood to be a practical guide for living, or even itself a way of life. This volume of essays brings historical views about philosophy as a way of life, coupled with their modern equivalents, more prevalently into the domain of the contemporary scholarly world. Illustrates how the articulation of philosophy as a way of life and its pedagogical implementation advances the love of wisdom Questions how we might convey the love of wisdom as not only a body of dogmatic principles and axiomatic truths but also a lived exercise that can be practiced Offers a collection of essays on an emerging field of philosophical research Essential reading for academics, researchers and scholars of philosophy, moral philosophy, and pedagogy; also business and professional people who have an interest in expanding their horizons

Author : Richard Kannicht
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Classical literature
ISBN : UOM:39015018598915

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The Ancient Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry by Richard Kannicht Pdf

Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781685693

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The Age of the Poets by Alain Badiou Pdf

The Age of the Poets revisits the age-old problem of the relation between literature and philosophy, arguing against both Plato and Heidegger’s famous arguments. Philosophy neither has to ban the poets from the republic nor abdicate its own powers to the sole benefit of poetry or art. Instead, it must declare the end of what Badiou names the “age of the poets,” which stretches from Hölderlin to Celan. Drawing on ideas from his first publication on the subject, “The Autonomy of the Aesthetic Process,” Badiou offers an illuminating set of readings of contemporary French prose writers, giving us fascinating insights into the theory of the novel while also accounting for the specific position of literature between science and ideology.

Author : Thomas Gould
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608095974

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The Ancient Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy by Thomas Gould Pdf

Author : Susan B. Levin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199919819

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Plato's Rivalry with Medicine by Susan B. Levin Pdf

While scholars typically view Plato's engagement with medicine as uniform and largely positive, Susan B. Levin argues that from the Gorgias through the Laws, his handling of medicine unfolds in several key phases. Further, she shows that Plato views medicine as an important rival for authority on phusis (nature) and eudaimonia (flourishing). Levin's arguments rest on careful attention both to Plato and to the Hippocratic Corpus. Levin shows that an evident but unexpressed tension involving medicine's status emerges in the Gorgias and is explored in Plato's critiques of medicine in the Symposium and Republic. In the Laws, however, this rivalry and tension dissolve. Levin addresses the question of why Plato's rivalry with medicine is put to rest while those with rhetoric and poetry continue. On her account, developments in his views of human nature, with their resulting impact on his political thought, drive Plato's striking adjustments involving medicine in the Laws. Levin's investigation of Plato is timely: for the first time in the history of bioethics, the value of ancient philosophy is receiving notable attention. Most discussions focus on Aristotle's concept of phronêsis (practical wisdom); here, Levin argues that Plato has much to offer bioethics as it works to address pressing concerns about the doctor-patient tie, medical professionalism, and medicine's relationship to society.