Husain Ontology and the Art of Tragedy

An Approach to Aristotle's Poetics
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8979-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 162 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Ancient Greek Philosophy

Argues for a reading of the Poetics in light of the Metaphysics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Husain, Martha

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
1. Approach to the Corpus as a Whole
1.1 The Systematic, the Chronological, the Aporetic Approach
1.2 The Pervasive Substantive-Methodological Conceptual Constants
1.2.1 The Concept of Being
1.2.2 The Categories of Being
1.2.3 The Categorial Priority of Ousia
1.2.4 Immanent Causal Form-Matter Constitution in the Category of Ousia
1.2.5 The Ontological and Cognitive Priority of the Object
2. Approach To The Poetics
2.1 The Poetics As A Special Science
2.2 Techne-Physis (Mimesis 1)
2.3 Artistic Techne (Mimesis 2)
2.4 Poetical Techne, Tragic Techne
2.5 Tragedy as an Ousia
3. Levels within the Poetics
3.1 The First Level: Being
3.1.1 The Concept of Being
3.1.2 The Categories of Being
3.1.3 The Categorial Priority of Ousia
3.1.4 Immanent Causal Form-Matter Constitution in the Category of Ousia
3.1.5 The Ontological and Cognitive Priority of the Object
3.2 The Second and Third Levels: Mimesis 1 and Mimesis 2
3.3 The Aporia of Mimesis and Aristotle’s Solution
3.3.1 Liberties Art May Not Take
3.3.2 Liberties Art May Take
3.3.3 Liberties Art Must Take
4. Agent-Centering, Patient-Centering, Object-Centering
4.1 Agent-Centering and Object-Centering
4.1.1 Agent-Centering
4.1.2 Object-Centering
4.1.3 Comparison of Ethical and Tragic Action
4.2 Patient-Centering and Object-Centering
4.2.1 Patient-Centering
4.2.2 Comparison of Rhetorical and Tragic Action
Conclusion
Appendix: Textual Evidence
Notes
References
Index of Names
Subject Index
Index of Passages Cited

Über Autor(innen)

Martha Husain is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Brock University.