Ontology and the art of tragedy : an approach to Aristotle's Poetics / Martha Husain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Husain, Martha, 1937-

Series:

SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. Poetics.

Aristotle.

Tragedy.

Physical Description:

ix, 152 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2002]

Contents:

Chapter 1 Approach to the Corpus as a Whole 7

1.1 The Systematic, the Chronological, the Aporetic Approach 7

1.2 The Pervasive Substantive-Methodological Conceptual Constants 9

1.2.1 The Concept of Being 10

1.2.2 The Categories of Being 11

1.2.3 The Categorial Priority of Ousia 12

1.2.4 Immanent Causal Form-Matter Constitution in the Category of Ousia 14

1.2.5 The Ontological and Cognitive Priority of the Object 15

Chapter 2 Approach to the Poetics 17

2.1 The Poetics as a Special Science 17

2.2 Techne-Physis (Mimesis 1) 18

2.3 Artistic Techne (Mimesis 2) 26

2.4 Poetical Techne, Tragic Techne 28

2.5 Tragedy as an Ousia 29

Chapter 3 Levels Within the Poetics 35

3.1 The First Level: Being 36

3.1.2 The Categories of Being 39

3.1.3 The Categorial Priority of Ousia 39

3.1.4 Immanent Causal Form-Matter Constitution in the Category of Ousia 48

3.1.5 The Ontological and Cognitive Priority of the Object 65

3.2 The Second and Third Levels: Mimesis 1 and Mimesis 2 67

3.3 The Aporia of Mimesis and Aristotle's Solution 70

3.3.1 Liberties Art May Not Take 71

3.3.2 Liberties Art May Take 73

3.3.3 Liberties Art Must Take 74

Chapter 4 Agent-Centering, Patient-Centering, Object-Centering 79

4.1 Agent-Centering and Object-Centering 80

4.1.1 Agent-Centering 80

4.1.2 Object-Centering 87

4.1.3 Comparison of Ethical and Tragic Action 87

4.2 Patient-Centering and Object-Centering 90

4.2.1 Patient-Centering 90

4.2.2 Comparison of Rhetorical and Tragic Action 97

Appendix Textual Evidence 111.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-138) and indexes.

ISBN:

0791451437

0791451445

OCLC:

47739786