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Socrates and Dionysus : philosophy and art in dialogue / edited by Ann Ward.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--Philosophy.
- Art.
- Art and philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Socrates and Dionysus engages and seeks to redraw the boundaries between philosophy and poetry, science and art. Friedrich Nietzsche argues in his work The Birth of Tragedy that science conquers art, especially the tragic art of the Dionysian poet of ancient Greece. Appealing to the natural, primeval self that is suppressed but not extinguished by the knowledge of culture, Dionysian tragedy establishes contact with our bodies and their deepest longings. Science and philosophy, associated with...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; PART ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART TWO; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; PART THREE; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; PART FOUR; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 18, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-6504-4
- OCLC:
- 885123170
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