Tragic Pathos

Pity and Fear in Greek Philosophy and Tragedy

By: Dana LaCourse Munteanu

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Hardcover | 10 November 2011 | Edition Number 1

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Scholars have often focused on understanding Aristotle's poetic theory, and particularly the concept of catharsis in the Poetics, as a reply to Plato's critique of pity in the Republic. But this book shows that, while Greek thinkers each acknowledge pity and some form of fear as responses to tragedy, each has in mind a different purpose, mode of presentation and, to a degree, understanding of the two emotions. This book reassesses expressions of the emotions within different tragedies and explores emotional responses to the tragedies and the discussion of them by contemporary philosophers, offering insights into the ethical and social implications of the emotions.

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Preface and acknowledgments	p. ix
List of abbreviations xii
Introduction	p. 1
Theoretical views about pity and fear as aesthetic emotions
Drama and the emotions: an Indo-European connection?	p. 29
Gorgias: a strange trio, the poetic emotions	p. 37
Plato: from reality to tragedy and back	p. 52
Aristotle: the first "theorist" of the aesthetic emotions	p. 70
Pity and fear within Tragedies
An introduction	p. 141
Aeschylus: Persians	p. 151
Prometheus Bound	p. 164
Sophocles: Ajax	p. 181
Euripides: Orestes	p. 208
Appendix Catharsis and the emotions in the definition of tragedy in the Poetics	p. 238
Bibliography	p. 251
Index	p. 275
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